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Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1


On Monday 18 December 2000 03:39, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:27:51PM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote:
> >At 21:13 12/17/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>This version fixes a bug with excluding files.  It also
> >> incorporates a native '-j' switch which causes tar to use bzip to
> >> compress and uncompress.  This replaces the previous -y option.
> >
> >ugh. so there are now *four* different switches for bz2?
> >I really wish we could all pick one and standardize on it,
> >or has that happened somewhere and it's 'j'? if so point me
> >to the "official standard declaration" somewhere... 'cuz there
> >are a couple other packagers I wanna beat over the head with it
> >until they match. :\
>
> This is the sources right from gnu.org.  -j is the official switch.
> That's what I meant by "native".

Unfortunately the only `stable' option seems to be `--bzip2'.

Corinna

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