On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 20:32:07 +0200, Lex Chive wrote: > tar used to accept the -I option to use bzip2 (instead of gzip with -z). > Now the option is still documented in the man page but it no longer works. > Why was the behaviour changed?
It looks like the maintainer forgot to reapply the patch when upgrading to the latest upstream version; a bug report for this has been filed already. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
