> GNU tar will not handle it. > > star will automatically handle all types of > compression that may be unpacked with: > > - compress > - gzip > - bzip2 > - lzop > - p7zip
That's nice, but it goes against the UNIX(R) phylosophy of stringing together a bunch of tools for maximum flexibility. I don't want to be dependent on any one tool or author implementing functionality that I need (putting all my eggs in one basket). I'd much rather pick and choose the tools that I need than wait for the author to maybe implement the functionality. Besides, a tar is a Tape ARchiver. His jos is therefore to know everything there is to know about archiving to tape, not to be a (de)compression tool. Other tools, specialized tools, exist for that. And they're optimized for two and two things only. Compression and decompression. Did you forget the old "do one thing and do it well" mantra? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
