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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files
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Adrian Irving-Beer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:33:59 -0500 |
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:01:32AM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> > Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2
> > shouldn't be too hard, either, though it requires a little more
> > coding.
>
> But what would be the point? For compatibility purposes, we already
> require GNU tar, and it has supported the --bzip2 option since 1999.
The point would be the ability to specify compression levels and other
bzip2/gzip options, and with drop-in support for other compression
formulas for which there is no GNU tar option.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Simon Geusebroek, 2005/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, John Arbash Meinel, 2005/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2005/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Matthew Dempsky, 2005/03/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Matthew Dempsky, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Matthew Dempsky, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Matthew Dempsky, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Andrew Suffield, 2005/03/25