What's wrong with jar as a compression utility? In the tests I ran, I got almost equal compression vs. gzip with a -9 compression but jar was at least twice as fast. I used to tar then gzip large files but moved to jar about a year and a half ago. Its major flaw is the that it doesn't understand symbolic links but there are ways around that. Am I missing something? I am a Solaris/UNIX guy. (first post)
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What's wrong with jar as a compression utility? In the tests I ran, I got almost equal compression vs. gzip with a -9 compression but jar was at least twice as fast. I used to tar then gzip large files but moved to jar about a year and a half ago. Its major flaw is the that it doesn't understand symbolic links but there are ways around that. Am I missing something? I am a Solaris/UNIX guy. (first post)