[PATCH] Re: Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] automatically find and use compression filter + bzip2 filter

[Ingmar Schuster]

Paul Eggert  schrieb am 30.07.03 22:57:02:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I think it'd be better to have tar
> automatically decompress when reading archives, without the need for
> any special option.  This would be an even greater convenience, and it
> should be an upward compatible change.
> 
> For outputting archives, your proposal is only a minor convenience,
> since "tar qcf foo.tgz" is no shorter than "tar zcf foo.tgz".

Easy! Use this patch. It's better codingstyle anyway, and it's a patch for 
tar-1.13.25

Ingmar
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