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Old 02-24-2008
compressing a directory

I have a pretty large directory on a backup hard drive.

I have Tiger for an OS, what would be the best way to compress this directory. there is a large number of files inside in addition if that makes a difference

any help appreciated hopefully thanks in advance
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Old 03-02-2008
Try to tar and then gzip it
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Old 03-02-2008
i think the newer versions of Gzip, compress and archive directories now
 
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