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Re: OT: A version of tar using bzip2



Quoth Guy Baruch on Tue, Oct 19, 1999:
> Is there one including bzip2 ?
> (Yes I know I can use tar and then bzip2, Its just that gtar cfz is
> shorter and nicer)

Tar never includes gzip or bzip2.  It just forks and execs gzip
when given the -z option.  Effectively, it's the same as writing:
tar cf - file1 file2 | gzip > file.tar.gz

No, there's no tar "supporting" bzip2.  Yes, you can patch gtar,
it should not be hard.

Vadik.

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