Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!mjbtn!root From: root@mjbtn.UUCP (Mark J. Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: A Dumb Idea Summary: Yes you can make selective extraction from compressed tar files! Message-ID: <278@mjbtn.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 88 17:33:19 GMT References: <17362@gatech.edu> <2713@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: JobSoft Design & Development, Murfreesboro, TN Lines: 28 In article <2713@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: > > > > What exactly is it that people have against compressed tar files? > > > You cannot make a selective extraction from a compressed tar file > without decompressing the whole thing. With many small files, tar adds > a fair amount of garbage to pad out blocks. I hate to disagree with you here, but at least on Unix, I use the following method for selective extractions, and it works: uncompress