On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 18:45, David Schultz wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 17:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > > David Schultz wrote: > > > > ... a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as > > > > an undocumented option and ignore it. > > > > > > Tempting, tempting.... ;-/ > > > > Not one bit, IMHO. I can't imagine a single case where something would > > use --use-compress-program and it would continue to work if the tar in > > question simply ignored it. > > Why not? If libarchive supports the compression format, it will > automatically detect it and perform the appropriate decompression. Ok, I didn't know tar -xf will actually extract anything that libarchive manages to make some sense of. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi_at_freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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