On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:33 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > 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.
`tar -j' will already uses the highest bzip2 compression level. Also, tar has the `--use-compress-program PROG' option for specifying alternative compression options if we really want to support that. (I don't know how new a feature the latter is though.) -- Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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