Re: [Bug-tar] Short option name for --use-compress-program

[Tim Kientzle]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > I can't see any problem with the option "--use-compress-program".
>
> Now, during the last year, I got
> three requests for adding support of new compression programs to tar,
> and each of them asked for a new short option!

Automatic tasting on read and using the filename to infer
compression on write does relieve some of the pressure for
this.

Tim