On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:02:59PM +0200, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, bmj2001 wrote:
>
> > tar --use=bzip2 -xf
>
> How about use gzip as more known and accetable standard?
Bzip2 is getting more popular as it has better compression than gzip.
It is a slower algorithm, but the speed of computers is increasing so
that's getting to be less of a problem. Tar already supports bzip2
with the -j option (newish GNU tars that is):
tar -jxf whatever.tar.bz2
Mark.
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