On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:53 +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program? > tar preserves permissions, time stamps, etc. and this is great in some > cases. But in other cases, one just wants a simple way to concatenate > files. > > Any idea? I'm using tar, but you might want http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip . Hth, Ralf