"Michael R. Jinks" wrote:

> the difference is that tar (and most of the traditional Unix command
> line utilities) were written under a very simple interoperability scheme
> based around text streaming.  So I can easily incorporate tar with other
> programs, where each does its own little part of the job and does it
> well.

Well Damn! I must be getting dense in my old age! I should have realized this
before or someone could have mentioned it before. Linux is starting to make more
sense, now. My window-itis is starting to lose it's grip!

Thank you very much.



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