On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:51:37PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > Like you said elsewhere, we don't actually invoke gzip ourselves, we > simply pass the `-z' option to tar. Since tla already requires GNU > tar, and GNU's tar supports the `--bzip2' option[1], perhaps someone > interested in nicely compressing binary files would like to write a > patch so tla supports using bzip2 compression?
Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2 shouldn't be too hard, either, though it requires a little more coding.
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