On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
> > > options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created.
> >
> > Sigh. They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzip2
> > at the same time. Please let me know after you commit this so I can do
> > this.
>
> Is this necessary ? What's the problem with using a pipe ? Isn't
> this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ?
>
> Maybe I'm missing something...
This is useful in tar compatibility mode, and therefore it may as well
be used for pax mode too.
Kris
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