Re: tar vs

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200
Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400
> Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage
> > (s) of tar over ZIP/RAR for example.
> > 
> 
> tar is almost as old as the computer (it's been around since magnetic
> tapes) and it represents the *nix philosophy of do one task and do it
> will
> 
> What you do here is separate the work of grouping together files
> (tar) and compressing them (most commonly gzip and bzip2 in this case
> there is also compress and a few others which are rarely used these
> days).
> 
> zip does all the work in one place, it's also been around for ages
> but it only more recently propagated to *nix. I don't know the
> difference in efficient, but zip has the drawback that it doesn't


   Good. Answers my questions. Didn't think about the permissions
problem. I guess in my daily usage it doesn't make a great deal of
difference if I own the files I extract providing they're in my home.

Thanks

Cheers

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