On 12 May 2012 17:18, Henk Langeveld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 11:33, Lionel Cons wrote:
>>
>> Does ast pax support the xz compression method?
>
>
> This xz format?
>
> http://tukaani.org/xz/                          XZ Utils
> http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format-1.0.4.txt  XZ File format
>
> I don't see it or the underlying lzma2 mentioned in the man pages for pax or
> vczip/vcodex - which is where support would need to be added.

Well, now that Illumos and AIX tar are going to support  xz (i.e. tar
option "-J, --xz filter the archive through xz") it might be time to
do the same with ast pax (add xz support) and the tar.sh (add options
"-J, --xz filter the archive through xz") script.

Lionel

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