compression

[Shawn Protsman]

Jim,

You can use 'tar' with the '-z' or '-Z' flag.  Or you can use 'gzip'. 
Check the man pages for both 'tar' and 'gzip' for more information.

Shawn

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:30, Jim Ricken wrote:
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> Hey everyone
> What utility can I use to compress some of my files to save on disk space?
> How do you use it?
> Jim
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Shawn
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