On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:23:12 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>
>I've got no idea why Rocket would choose to use tarballs. It would have
>been a much better idea to use compressed pax archives like the original
>IBM ported tools.
>
Yes. But on (some) GNU Linux:
man pax
...
-z Use the gzip(1) utility to compress (decompress) the archive while
writing
(reading). Incompatible with -a.
Ouch! Gnu's Not Unix.
-- gil
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