Re: Suggestion for GNU tar

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From: Jean-loup Gailly
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:02

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root@osnome.che.wisc.edu writes:

> It would be nice if GNU tar could be configured to support gzip compression
> as well as "compress" compression.

Future versions of tar will support gzip. A *non official* patch
for tar 1.11.1 is given in the gzip 0.8.1 distribution. With this
patch, "tar -z" uses gzip, "tar -Z" uses compress.

Jean-loup Gailly
jloup@chorus.fr

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Subject: Re: Suggestion for GNU tar
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:02:41 -0500
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