On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:49 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:51:37PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > > > Like you said elsewhere, we don't actually invoke gzip ourselves, we > > simply pass the `-z' option to tar. Since tla already requires GNU > > tar, and GNU's tar supports the `--bzip2' option[1], perhaps someone > > interested in nicely compressing binary files would like to write a > > patch so tla supports using bzip2 compression? > > Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2 shouldn't > be too hard, either, though it requires a little more coding.
But what would be the point? For compatibility purposes, we already require GNU tar, and it has supported the --bzip2 option since 1999. -- Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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