[2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

>> Because none of those; bz2, rar, or ace, will let you do this...
>>
>>     tar zxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.gz
>
>I could not get your point here. Every archiver has it's own command for
>unpacking. So what?

My point was that gz, and now I know bzip2, are built into tar(GNU) -- which
is builtin into most *nix installations. Ad therefore would be another
required programm for users to install. -- But providing alternative
downloads would a solution to serve those that already have such programs.


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