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

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