Posted by Laura on October 08, 2000 at 23:20:57:
In Reply to: Re: Jenesis slave code posted by John Frear on October 04, 2000 at 01:31:20:
: Another factor seems to be that when people uncompress and extract files,
: they do not do it in a very good manner. Given a .tar.gz most people will
: do ungzip file.tar.gz, and then 'tar xf file.tar', and I think this is
: very wasteful of system resources - disk space, i/o performance during the
: operations, and fragmentation.
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You can just do it all in one step like I do, 'tar xzvf blur.tar.gz' that does them both in one step. Less typing makes me happy.