Rich Burridge <Rich.Burridge at sun.com> writes: > Thanks to everyone who responded. > > After discussing this with various people off-list, the project > team will merge together the functionality of the existing bzip2 > application, with what is available via pbzip2. When this work is > complete, they will come back to PSARC, with a revised proposal > and specification. > > Until that time, I've adjusted the case to "waiting need spec", > (rather than withdrawing it), so that the mail archive preserves > the case history. >
I don't know if my emails make it to the alias, but I want to re-mention that the following line appears on the pbzip2 home page: | The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or | newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with | bzip2). That, to me, implies that older versions of bzip2 will *not* be able to read archives made by pbzip2. A combined program may have to deal with this, depending on the level of concern about use of older versions of bzip2. Boyd
