Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files

[Matthew Dempsky]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:49 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:51:37PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> 
> > Like you said elsewhere, we don't actually invoke gzip ourselves, we
> > simply pass the `-z' option to tar.  Since tla already requires GNU
> > tar, and GNU's tar supports the `--bzip2' option[1], perhaps someone
> > interested in nicely compressing binary files would like to write a
> > patch so tla supports using bzip2 compression?
> 
> Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2 shouldn't
> be too hard, either, though it requires a little more coding.

But what would be the point?  For compatibility purposes, we already
require GNU tar, and it has supported the --bzip2 option since 1999.

-- 
Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden>

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