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From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
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Subject: Re: bzip2/tar/pkg_add (was Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin ...) 
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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
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On 27 March 1999 at 19:57, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> wrote:
> I'd like to have bzcat, bunzip and bzip, 

Send patches for the port.  bunzip2 and bzip2 are there already,
but not bzcat.

> and let tar be intelligent
> about which program to use to handle things.  I would not want to modify
> the gzip/gunzip stuff, it's GNU, 

tar is GNU also.

[snip]
> No new flags to tar for decompression.  For compression
> only, let tar depend on:
> 
> 1) an added flag, for what kind of compression   OR
> 2) environmental var, TAR_COMPRESSOR, which would be a path to
>    the compressor to use,                        OR
> 3) a compiled in default, if no flag AND no env var is available.
>
> This would be the order checked.

I think this would violate POLA.
 
> don't modify zcat.  Add a bzcat.

I don't intend to modify zcat, but to replace it.

Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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