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- From: jloup@chorus.FR (Jean-loup Gailly)
- Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for GNU tar
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:02:41 -0500
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Distribution: gnu
- Message-ID: <1888@chorus.chorus.fr>
- References: <9301251633.AA17768@osnome.che.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: jloup@chorus.fr (Jean-loup Gailly)
-
- root@osnome.che.wisc.edu writes:
-
- > It would be nice if GNU tar could be configured to support gzip compression
- > as well as "compress" compression.
-
- Future versions of tar will support gzip. A *non official* patch
- for tar 1.11.1 is given in the gzip 0.8.1 distribution. With this
- patch, "tar -z" uses gzip, "tar -Z" uses compress.
-
- Jean-loup Gailly
- jloup@chorus.fr
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