[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erv Walter) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
>
> > IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
> > Micro$oft
> > and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of runn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply - catching up.
> IMHO speed is always relevant, and so is memory usage. This is the trap
> Micro$oft
> and Apple have fallen into. Just because the hardware is capable of running
> faster
> is no excuse for sloppy coding. I'm
embly
language and optimized, but horsepower is not a substitute either.
Pat
> -Original Message-
> From: Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 10:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Stephan Kulow; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject
Joel Klecker writes:
> However, I have run across a patch that adds an option that does use magic
> numbers to guess which compression program to use. The URL was posted on
> gnu.misc.discuss some months ago, but it is unfortunately not on dejanews.
For things like that, I have developped a uti
At 15:30 +0200 1998-04-18, Falk Hueffner wrote:
>Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote:
>> >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
>> >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
>> >teach gzip
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> I'm the tar maintainer for Debian, among other things.
>
> : -z filter through gzip, bzip, bzip2 as appropriate
>
> : That would be a nice thing.
>
> But really hard to get right for compression. :-)
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files
> > > via the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one
> > > could teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
:> Debian tar has a patch which hands off files to bzip2 if the -I option is
:> passed to it.
: Why wasn't the -z option expanded to recognize the bzip2 signature?
: That would seem to be a better solution to me.
Because the options are used both on comp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
I'm the tar maintainer for Debian, among other things.
: -z filter through gzip, bzip, bzip2 as appropriate
: That would be a nice thing.
But really hard to get right for compression. :-) For decompression, it is
conceivable that you could pick t
Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> > BTW: tar can handle bz2 files. you can use --use-compress-program=bzip2.
>
> That option isn't working properly with bzip2 but hopefully bzip2 is
> now supported by tar ie
>
> tar cIf
> tar xIf
> ta
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote:
> >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
> >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
> >teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to disti
At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote:
>I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
>the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
>teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish
>between the two.
Debian tar has a patch w
Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files
> > via the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one
> > could teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to
> > distinguish between the two.
> >
> > The m
Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
> > the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
> > teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish
> > between the two.
> >
>
>
> I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
> the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
> teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish
> between the two.
>
> The main advantage would be that one could use tar.bz2
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