On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Sedat Dilek <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> why do you name your BZ2-tarballs with the right and common
> file-extensions ".tar.bz2"?
> 
> $ file ltp-full-20130109.bz2
> ltp-full-20130109.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
> 
> $ bunzip2 ltp-full-20130109.bz2
> 
> $ file ltp-full-20130109
> ltp-full-20130109: POSIX tar archive (GNU)
> 
> $ tar -xf ltp-full-20130109
> 
> $ ls -l
> insgesamt 12
> drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ./
> drwxrwxr-x  3 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan 16 14:33 ../
> drwxr-xr-x 16 wearefam wearefam 4096 Jan  9 10:21 ltp-full-20130109/
> 
> And why don't you use XZ compressor? Even traditional GNU folks
> switched to efficient XZ :-).

Xz didn't become popular until the last couple years. Ltp has been around for a 
while and still supports old releases of Linux. How far back has never really 
been clearly communicated afaict.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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