Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> ...
>>> and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar.
>>> Just pipe
>>> from/to it.
>>
>> It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according
>> to its manpage.
> 
> GNU tar features the -j, -z and -Z options.

Yes, bad, isn't it? These options are not part of the Posix standard.
It would be good, if these superflous options wouldn't be present at
all. I say "superflous", as pipes work just fine.

> These are much more 
> convenient than piping, 

No.

> and it would be nice to see p7zip supported 
> in the same way.

No.

Alexander Skwar

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