Hi,
You can use named pipes to tar and compress on the fly this way :
mknod /path/to/np p # create a named pipe
tar cvf /path/to/np /files/to/tar & # tar on background process
compress < /path/to/np > /path/to/file.tar
rm /path/to/np # delete the named pipe
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