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You reinvented zip and didn’t even know it.

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tar was nearly and adult when zip was born.

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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”.

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The link does not load for some reason, but tar itself does not compress anything. Compression can (and usually is) applied afterwards, but that’s an additional integration that is not part of Tape ARchive, as such.

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I use Arch btw


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