Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > As nobody responded to > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2009-08/msg00000.html, I am > sending this message again. ... > I am writing you because the most obvious names for such utilities are > the names of the utilities already distributed with gzip. I hope we > can cooperate to avoid name clashes in distributions. I think the best > way is gzip, bzip2 and lzip stop distributing their respective > utilities and distributions provide the zutils port/package to replace > those utilities.
Thanks for working on that. However, I have a profound aversion to using a shell script for any task that I require to be executed in a robust manner. As such, my medium-term goal is to prototype a perl-based tool using IO:Compress that can do the job more efficiently and more robustly than bourne shell-based code can.
