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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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