Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 04/30/2013 05:09 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
>
> Given how inconsistent the documentation and the implementations
> of compress are, that it is obsolete, and that the compress format
> was not designed to allow integrity checks, I would like to make a
> proposal for the maintainers of tar to consider. What about removing
> *compression* support for compress from tar?
>
FWIW, seconded.

> I mean, is anybody still *creating* tar.Z files?
> 
> And if there is somebody doing this, can't they use compress directly?:
> 
> $ echo foo > foo
> $ tar -c foo | compress > foo.tar.Z ; echo $?
> 0
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Antonio.
> 
> 

Regards,
  Stefano