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In article <41549@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) writes:
>I have to transfer the contents of my unix account to msdos. As I
>have many directories and files I should like to do this as efficiently
>as possible, i.e. I do not want to do a file transfer of each file!
>Should I make a tar file of the my entire directory and use one of the
>pd untar utilities to extract it or is there a better way? As I shall
>be transferring things via modem (at 2400bps), I wouldn't mind some
>compression as well.

It would be perfectly fine to tar all the files, except the tar file
format is not an efficient method of grouping files. My recommendation:
Use the LHARC program (latest unix port available on 133.11.11.11
under fj/lharc1.02) for efficient file grouping and maximum compression.
Then, use the MSDOS LHARC (or the new LHa) utility to decompress
the file.  The MSDOS version of LHa (the successor to LHARC) can be
found on simtel20 under pd1:<msdos.arc-lbr> as lha211*.  LHa can
decompress the old LHARC files created by the UNIX lharc program.
At 2400bps, every byte counts.

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