Slackware Linux Essentials
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Summary

Summary

This chapter discussed the programs that are used for compressing and decompressing archive files. You should know what an archive file is, how to create one using tar and your choice of compression program, how to decompress one, and how to handle Windows-based archives. Almost anything that you download or upload will involve an archive, so these are important skills to know.

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