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

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:01:32AM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> > 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.

The point would be the ability to specify compression levels and other
bzip2/gzip options, and with drop-in support for other compression
formulas for which there is no GNU tar option.

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