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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:41:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: questions-digest V4 #119
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980317044117.dburr@POBoxes.com>

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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 17-Mar-98, questions-digest
wrote:
> 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?

Just use the "z" flag to tar.  Example:

tar cvzf /dev/nrst0 /some/directory/to/archive
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