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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by dingaling on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:28AM (#17799697)
I still prefer to pipe through a compression program on principle. tar has no good reason to messing around with compression, per the Unix single-function philosophy.
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by TremendousJudge on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:08AM (#17799973)
to people who grew up with archive programs, "making all of this into a single file" and "compressing all of this" is the same thing; requiring two commands is counterintuitive
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