Re: [Bug-tar] Autodetecting compressed data (was: obsolescent base-64 headers)

[Joerg Schilling]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > By the way, why doesn't GNU tar autodetect compressed data?
>
> It is in the TODO list.

Well, the first aproach could be to tell the user that there is a specific
compression and the apropriate option to unpack. This is something that
star does since more than 7 years.

Jörg

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