Hi! Since the beginnings of bzip2 it was always possible to set symlinks to allow the usage of bzip2 with it's old name bzip. So I do have several shell scripts which use bzip/bunzip. The problem is, that the busybox applets do not allow such usage. That let to the fact, that I do always have to modify busybox to allow such renaming. The applets in busybox are fine and work as expected if called as bzip/bunzip instead of bzip2/bunzip2, so we just need to add an alias for those applets.
Can we have those aliases in the busybox distribution? No one needs to use them, if he doesn't like and required overhead is just a few bytes for the name table (possibly controlled by a configuration option like the egrep/fgrep aliases). ... and just to state that out: I know, bzip2 is not bzip! I was one of those who had do deal with the problems which raised to the sudden (and incompatible) change from original bzip to bzip2 ... and some of the old scripts are still alive from that days. You know: Never touch a running thing. Would be nice to have such aliases in the busybox main stream. -- Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
