Re: [Bug-tar] wishlist: transparent compression on file- and not archive level

[Helmut Waitzmann]

Christian Hammers <address@hidden> writes:

[zip the individual file chunks rather than the complete tape archive]
>Of course this would be an incompatible change but when calling the
>result .tar.czip (chunkwise zipped) that should be ok, or?

>What do you think?

One shouldn't make gnu tar's behavior depend upon the name of the archive
file.  Please, don't let tar decide what to do with a given archive file
by drawing conclusions out of the file name.

I'd appreciate an option, though.
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