Does TAR use any compression?

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12-13-2006, 02:17 PM	#16
Micro420 Senior Member Registered: Aug 2003 Location: Berkeley, CA Distribution: Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2, Windows 2003 Server/Vista/7/XP/2000/NT/98, Ubuntux64, CentOS4.8/5.4 Posts: 2,986 Original Poster Rep:	Doing this compression test shows me that bzip2 is also good at compressing, and the time it took was rather quick! You learn something new everyday! Thanks for making me do this test. It has been helpful

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