Michael Schuster wrote: > Ben Taylor wrote: > >>> 3a. using 'tar xzf pkg.tar.gz' is about 30% faster than 'gunzip >>> pkg.tar.gz && tar xf pkg.tar'. Changing this would benefit everyone. >> >> you've tested this? There's probably no harm in doing this, though >> we have to handle this differently for bz2 version. (Though adding >> bzip2 support to gtar if it isn't already there would not be difficult. >> I added it to compress years ago to support bzip2 flar archives >> since changing the lib stuff for flar installs was much too complicated) > > how about "<uncompression tool> -c pkg.tar.<suffix> | tar xf > pkg" or
oops ..."tar xf -" of course. -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
