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Date:      Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:15:18 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: when did bzip2 become part of the base?
Message-ID:  <20030202131517.GA90943@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <F130Hk4SU170yUaMsO80000d4e4@hotmail.com>
References:  <F130Hk4SU170yUaMsO80000d4e4@hotmail.com>

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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:26:02PM +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote:
> Hi, I'm working on a little script and I was just wondering
> when bzip2 became part of the FreeBSD base (which version of
> FreeBSD, not a date)? The bzip2 man page does not state this
> information (nor does man gzip for gzip) but tar has the -j
> (or -y) option which includes bzip2 support.
> 
> I guess I'm asking if it is a safe bet to state that bzip2
> is installed (by default) on any FreeBSD 4.X release or
> newer?

As far as I can tell (by looking at the cvs logs and the release notes)
the first release of FreeBSD that included bzip2 in the base system was
FreeBSD 4.4



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