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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] automatically find and use compression filter + bz
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] automatically find and use compression filter + bzip2 filter |
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30 Jul 2003 13:56:59 -0700 |
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I think it'd be better to have tar
automatically decompress when reading archives, without the need for
any special option. This would be an even greater convenience, and it
should be an upward compatible change.
For outputting archives, your proposal is only a minor convenience,
since "tar qcf foo.tgz" is no shorter than "tar zcf foo.tgz".