[oclug] [OT] Cat

GR Gaudreau grgaud at sympatico.ca
Wed Apr 13 19:58:55 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:17 -0400, Rod Giffin wrote:
<snip>

> Actually, tarring works, except that what you end up with is the same size
> as the original, with lots of sticky bits.  I agree with the result of
> gzipping though, and you most certainly should not gzip a cat.tar.  It
> will most definetly result in a destablized shared environment with any
> peers using the same device.

[GR]   It always boils down to the same old problem, doesn't it? So man
cats, so few recipes?

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GR Gaudreau 
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