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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files
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Matthew Dempsky |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files |
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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:55:03 -0600 |
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:33 -0500, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> 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.
`tar -j' will already uses the highest bzip2 compression level. Also,
tar has the `--use-compress-program PROG' option for specifying
alternative compression options if we really want to support that. (I
don't know how new a feature the latter is though.)
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Matthew Dempsky <address@hidden>
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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, Adrian Irving-Beer, 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, 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
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Simon Geusebroek, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, John Arbash Meinel, 2005/03/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files, Simon Geusebroek, 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, Simon Geusebroek, 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, Andrew Suffield, 2005/03/25