> Writing this comment, I had to look up the order of the parameters to tar; I still can't remember. Stupid tar ; tar c *.cpp *.h >something.tar ; tar

> Writing this comment, I had to look up the order of the parameters to tar; I still can't remember. Stupid tar ; tar c *.cpp *.h >something.tar ; tar c dir | gzip >something-else.tgz Problem solved! Also: ; tar c dir | gzip | nc -q0 -lp 4000 & ; [another computer] ; nc $otherhost 4000 | gnuzip | tar x