On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:38:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >cgf last released tar 1.13.25 in Nov 2003. I've just built tar 1.15.1 in >my sandbox with a one-liner tweak and autoreconf; are you interested in >letting me become the tar maintainer? One of the nice features about 1.15 >is that it auto-recognizes the compression type of a .tar.* file, so that >you don't need to use -Z, -z, or -j to extract them.
Sure, please take tar. I noticed the autodetection of the compressed files on one of my linux boxes. I've had a new version sitting in my sandbox for a while but I haven't taken the time to see if I got everything right as far as binmode/textmode goes. I've been carrying a few patches around that I've been remiss in submitting upstream since I anticipated pushback. I don't suppose that you want findutils, too? cgf
