Re: ODP: [Bug-tar] LZO and LZMA compression

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Joerg Schilling) writes:

> POSIX strongly recommends single char options and POSIX strongly recommends
> that options start with a single '-'.
>
> A long option called "-abc" ignores one recommendation, a long option called 
> "--abc" ignores two recommendations.

This is not the place to revisit longstanding GNU conventions; they
are not likely to change simply because of tar's historical quirks.