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Date:      Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:44:52 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
Message-ID:  <20050405134451.GA80818@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU>
References:  <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <200503261636.j2QGa2ZI055013@gate.bitblocks.com> <20050404002141.2819f386@dolphin.local.net> <42521824.1030009@kientzle.com> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU>

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:49:08AM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > In addition, bsdtar actually ignores the -z
> > flag on extraction in favor of libarchive's automatic
> > compression detection.
> 
> FWIW, I really like this feature.

Heh, I discovered quite by accident yesterday (mixed up .jar and .tar in
my head) that bsdtar works on ZIP files ;-)

Craig



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