On 04/30/2013 05:09 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > > [SNIP] > > Given how inconsistent the documentation and the implementations > of compress are, that it is obsolete, and that the compress format > was not designed to allow integrity checks, I would like to make a > proposal for the maintainers of tar to consider. What about removing > *compression* support for compress from tar? > FWIW, seconded.
> I mean, is anybody still *creating* tar.Z files? > > And if there is somebody doing this, can't they use compress directly?: > > $ echo foo > foo > $ tar -c foo | compress > foo.tar.Z ; echo $? > 0 > > > Best regards, > Antonio. > > Regards, Stefano
