Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:18:55PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:07:51PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> > Branden wrote:
> > > 
> > > For example, with tgz it would be complex to deal
> > > with running without extracting, 
> > 
> > What?  tar -z not good enough for you?
> 
> I believe that that wognt work ugnless you have gnu tar.

So very true.  Good people, the world is not Linux is it was not VAX.
(one may have "gzip" in which case one can "gzip -dc foo.tgz|tar ...")

We must be flexible/robust/friendly.

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