You could even shrink it more by doing:
tar -tf
the -v specifies verbose information. 99% of the time you don't care about that info.
And incase you don't know, -t doesn't really do anything, just displays the contents of the file specified with the -f.
if you want to extract it, you'll need to do -x == == == == == == Q) tar -t -v -f /dev/fd0 A) tar -tvf $/dev/fd0