From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
To: tomstdenis AT yahoo DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: findfirst/findnext woes
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:42:11 +0000
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Jason Green wrote:
> 
> > Tar includes gzip compression, it could be used with `bzip' too but I
> > don't know if `bzip' utility is ported to DJGPP yet.
> 
> The DJGPP port of bzip2, courtesy of Juan Manuel Guerrero 
> <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>, is available from the
> usual DJGPP sites:
> 
>   ftp://fp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/bz2-100b.zip

In that case, to compress the directory `subdir':

    tar -c subdir | bzip2 > subdir.tar.bz2

and to restore:

    bunzip2 -c subdir.tar.bz2 | tar -x