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most of the things i want to send around my network in archives are already compressed binary files, so i just tar everything.
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See my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041
The two aren’t really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of “compress individual files, then archive” from GP is what zip does. Tar does “archive first, then compress the whole thing”.
