Andras Salamon wrote: > I don't know much about p7zip, but GNU tar now supports the LZMA > compression algorithm part of the 7Zip package, as defined in the .xz > file format, and Slackware also recently switched to xz compression. > The reference xz code is GPL with some parts LGPL. > http://tukaani.org/xz/ > > -- Andras Salamon [email protected]
It would be dangerous to rely on people having a late version of GNU tar though. Certainly early releases of Solaris (if any) will not have a tar with that support. The version of gnu tar supplied with the latest Solaris release is 1.17 Dave --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
