On Sat, 12 May 2012 17:18:20 +0200 Henk Langeveld 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. thanks Henk for compressed archive formats where the entire archive is compressed pax has an easy-to-add hook that runs the (de)compressor as a coprocess filter this is how tgz is implemented adding xz took about 50 (commented and documented!) lines the bulk of those lines is code to recognize the compression format magic header on input _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
