tar on a roadrunner floppy

[Jim Morton]

thorstad at wooglin.scc.com (Brian Thorstad) writes:
> Sun wrote a special version of tar for the RoadRunner.  The "bar" command
> (floppy only pre 4.0.1) 2) allows compression of files (via pack) 3) and
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^

actually the "bar -Z" compression is not via pack(1) but by compress(1)
which uses the "Lempel-Ziv" compression coding method, FAR superior to
pack ("Huffman coding") or compact ("Adaptive Huffman coding"). Sun did a
nice job with bar, I regularly get around 3 meg of material on a 1.44 meg
floppy using bar -Z.

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