On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:01:32AM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > > Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2 > > shouldn't be too hard, either, though it requires a little more > > coding. > > But what would be the point? For compatibility purposes, we already > require GNU tar, and it has supported the --bzip2 option since 1999.
The point would be the ability to specify compression levels and other bzip2/gzip options, and with drop-in support for other compression formulas for which there is no GNU tar option.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
