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From: Stephen Parker <stephen.parker@pitechnology.com>
To: "'9fans@cse.psu.edu'" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] dumb question
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:55:51 +0100
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do you plan on doing this a lot?

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Stephen Parker.  Pi Technology.  +44 (0)1223 203438.

> why must i needlessly shove all the files into a tar, then unpack them
> again? thats incredibly inefficient! that uses roughly twice the space
> that should be required, it has to copy the files twice, and
> it has the
> overhead of having to needless run the data through tar. Is
> there a better
> solution to this?