Re: Regarding tar and split
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:48:10 +0200
> "Manon Metten" <manon.metten@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> > You might consider using Lha. It does the same as tar and bzip2 together
>
> Tar itself integrates bzip2 via the 'j' switch.
>
> > Manon.
>
> Celejar
> --
The difference is that afio compresses each input file individually, so
if there is a read/write error, only one file is lost from the archive.
(Actually, there are a lot more differences - to start with the options
are totally different syntax and symantics.)
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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