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Re: Make x-option to extract no matter what format (bz2...)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Make x-option to extract no matter what format (bz2...)
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:27:23 -0800
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address@hidden (Jari Aalto) writes:

>   Redirected 
>   from http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2005-01/msg00125.html
>   Please keep CC
>
> It is very non-intuitive to have to apply a specific compression option
> during the uncompress. It would be more user friendly to make "-x" option
> to extract the file no matter what compression was used.

That feature has already been implemented in the current stable
release of GNU tar.




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