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Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1


--- Chris Abbey <cabbey@bresnanlink.net> wrote:
> At 21:13 12/17/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >This version fixes a bug with excluding files.  It also incorporates a
> >native '-j' switch which causes tar to use bzip to compress and
> >uncompress.  This replaces the previous -y option.
> 
> ugh. so there are now *four* different switches for bz2?
> I really wish we could all pick one and standardize on it,
> or has that happened somewhere and it's 'j'? if so point me
> to the "official standard declaration" somewhere... 'cuz there
> are a couple other packagers I wanna beat over the head with it
> until they match. :\
> 

I just use --use-compress-program=bzip2 and I'm done with it.  Actually, I was
just thinking what needs to be done is to remove all of the short switches and
force the long ones.  Support for an environment variable named COMPRESS for
the user defined default would also be nice.  Remove --use-compress-program and
change --compress to do what it does but default to gzip (or the user specified
COMPRESS) if no program is given.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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