Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:14:56 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Interactive shells Re: 32bit BIOS
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Evan Dickinson wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> [snip]
> > The reason I suggest using a tar file is because _it's not compressed_.
> > Which means that it really like a compressed drive, only with no
> > compression, think of it as a sub-sectored drive, lots of little small
> > sectors for storing lots of little small files.
> 
> You can make a non-compressed .Zip file.  Just use:
> pkzip -e0 blah blah blah

Yes, I realize that, but PK doesn't end it's uncompressed files on a
'sector' boundry, TAR does, making it a faster 'unload'.