On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:55:44AM +0300, Noam Meltzer wrote:
> On Monday 09 May 2005 18:23, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Ira Abramov wrote:
> >
> > Well, one surpirse. "i" is not for bzip. If you want bzip, try "j".
> >
> "i" was the flag for bzip2 compressing around 4-5 years ago. Then some1 
> thought it can be nice to change the flag to "j".

I actually first encountered it as -y. IIRC those two were rejected due
to conflict with existing flags of other tar commands (Solaris tar?)

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