On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > I had a similar problem since I wanted to use the -J option of tar > (telling it to use the xz compressor)
There's also a --use-compress-prog switch for tar so you can make it use any program you like. (unless that's a new option too?)