Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:23:56PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> Why would that stop working if you switch compression schemes? I guess >> tar is coded to use gzip with -z and bzip2 with -j, but why is there no >> generic way to add coders/decoders (codecs) to tar (and other >> applications that wish to use compression filters)? Well, tar supports --use-compress-program. [...] > (The -j flag to tar is a Debian specific extension, BTW No, the Debian extension was -I (and even that was present for a while in upstream). It was changed to -j because that's what upstream did. The -j flag is present upstream as of 1.13.18. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
