Subject: Re: Building blivets.
To: frank donahoe <fdonahoe AT wilkes1 DOT wilkes DOT edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 23:13:31 EST
From: Angelo Ferrigno <aferrign AT iisst3 DOT italy DOT NCR DOT COM>
Cc: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Gzipped tar files are generally about 80% the size of the corresponding zip
> files.  But tar is not (?) available on MSDOS.  What may not be widely
> 
> <stuff deleted>
> 

As far as I know, GNU tar may be built for MSDOS and has gzipping buit-in.

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