How do you add files to an existing compressed tar file?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Erik Bixby wrote:

> While I was waiting for a response, I figured I'd see if leaving off
> the compression helped.  That still seems to munge the files...  I'm
> preparing to go with plan "b;" just use lots of individual files.

Uncompress the tarball first. Then do the appending (also without 
compression).

 Jeremy C. Reed

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