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Re: [Bug-tar] LZO and LZMA compression


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] LZO and LZMA compression
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:09:25 -0600
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According to Joerg Schilling on 10/17/2007 8:31 AM:
> 
> Please use the same optuion as star uses.... (-7z)

That's difficult to do, since a two-letter short option violates POSIX
recommendations.  -7z should be equivalent to -7 -z should be equivalent
to -z -7, but we already have -z.

On the other hand, using _just_ -7 might be feasible as the short option,
since that complies with POSIX.

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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