Problem with Archiving .tar

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Lemire wrote:

> tar doesn't use compression. It just creates archives. If you want
> compression, you should use bzip2 or gzip in combination with tar.

Why deliberately try to confuse users?  Of course tar uses compression.

$ tar --help | egrep "\-[zj]"
      --no-ignore-command-error   treat non-zero exit codes of children as
  -i, --ignore-zeros         ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)
  -j, --bzip2                filter the archive through bzip2
  -z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip   filter the archive through gzip

Oh - looks like tar uses compression...
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derek