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Why aren the *.tar files compressed?

April 26, 2017COMPRESSED files

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Why aren the *.tar files compressed?

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There is no need to compress the *.tar files because the contents of the tar file is (except for a few small files) already compressed. The common compression schemes (*.Z, *.zip, etc.) have little to no effect on the size of the downloadable *.tar files from this page.