Yann POUPET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking for an oss-bit-size bug/RFE to work on, and saw this one : > > *tar* tar needs 'z' functionality > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6267081 > > The basic idea is to implement -z (and why not -j) options to tar, like > gnu-tar does.
If you like to use a tar implementation with built in compression and de-compression auto-detection as well as standard compliance, just switch to 'star' ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ Star also gives you many more features than Sun tar ans GNU tar alltogether. There is e.g. True Inremental Backup/Restore support and a build in find. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
