On 24/04/10 08:02, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Leon, > > Saturday, April 24, 2010, 12:23:58 AM, you wrote: > >> file nearly a third smaller. Given that many modern variants of the >> "tar" command support .tar.lzma files directly > > isn't latest version of lzma-based compression use .xz extension?
How common is support for .xz on the platforms we are interested in here? I just passed a .tar.xz to a Mac user and got an email back that he couldn't unpack it. Rather than dig deeper I just sent him a .tar.gz, so I don't know what tool he was using. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
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