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

[Matthew Dempsky]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:33 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> 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.

`tar -j' will already uses the highest bzip2 compression level.  Also,
tar has the `--use-compress-program PROG' option for specifying
alternative compression options if we really want to support that.  (I
don't know how new a feature the latter is though.)

-- 
Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden>

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