Re: [Bug-tar] Feature Request

[Joerg Schilling]

Simon Descarpentries <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a french student fond of 7z compression file format, and I was wondering 
> about why the great Tar wasn't able to do something like :
>
> $ tar c7f smth.7z from_dir/
> $ tar x7vf smth.7z
>
> Using the free 7zip format, with max settings.
>
> This format is farly more effective than Bzip2.
> More informations could be found here : http://www.7-zip.org/

The last time I checked, 7z was not usable for a tar like implementation
as it did not implement a "UNIX compress" compatible command line interface.

I am very interested to support 7z for star, but I cannot before
7z is available in a program that is compatible to all other compress
programs.

Could you comment?

Jörg

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