dieter
Am Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:30:17 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
I tried with star 1.5 which is the version in openSUSE factory (and its gnutar). This version does not yet support xz compression.
You do know that tar does not really have to support any compression, because that can just be done through other programs piped to/from tar, don't you?
Yes, I know. But the "-a" option of GNU tar to auto-detect the used compression is very convenient. "-J" to use xz I consider also more convenient than to pipe the output through xz. This may be a matter of taste...
In other words, this gtar option seems to be rather useless as nobody did ever complain about the fact that star does this always. BTW: Many people today still use gtar versions that do not include this gtar/-a Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org