On Saturday 17 March 2007 17:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of > tar over ZIP/RAR for example. it works, that's all. ZIP and RAR aren't available everywhere and, AFAIK, are unable to represent UNIX permissions. Also, the separation of archivation and compression can come in handy. Thomas
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