On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Glen Wagley wrote: > So I have uncompressed data on a CD that is about 593 MB. I'm trying to > compress it so I can upload it to another box. So I try this: > tar -cz /mnt/cdrom/* > blah.tgz Yeah, it compresses it to a whopping > 584 MB. Hmm, what else could I try?
bzip2 usually makes smaller files, but takes longer to compress. AFAIK is doesn't usually get any better than bzip2. Johann ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
