From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 19:59:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09843 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from UPIMSSMTPUSR01 (smtp.email.msn.com [207.68.143.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09838 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@webfreaks.com) Received: from webfreaks.com - 153.34.187.146 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:58:44 -0800 Message-ID: <350DF4CA.D90D77BF@webfreaks.com> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 19:58:02 -0800 From: Mark Castillo X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tar - writing to tape compressed? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey all, now that i've got my scsi HP SureStore T41 tape drive working, I can now tar to the tape. My question now is how do I take advantage of compression? Can tar do this or must I use a different program? Thank You.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message