Anybody have any idea ofthe ratio of compression whilst tarring.<BR>I know the ratio is different would be different for different kind of data like text, images, etc. But how can I be sure that I can ...

The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

Compressing files is a quick and easy way to archive and group files. There are many occasions where archives are useful, a driver download, file backup or Linux distro download. In this how-to we’ll ...

Linux 101: How to compress a folder from the command line with tar Your email has been sent At some point in your Linux journey, you'll need to be able to compress and decompress a folder from the ...

Digital Wake Enterprises has released Gooeynix, a Mac OS X utility that puts a graphical interface on manipulation of Unix “.tar” file archives. With Gooeynix you can more easily create archives — ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...