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Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
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Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 06:46, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
>>I recommend submitting a change to the "ark" maintainers suggesting
>>they use "-z" (which is implemented by many different tar programs)
>>rather than the gtar-specific --use-compress-program=gunzip.
> 
> Now, what ark does is not calling --use-compress-programm=gunzip, it calls 
> --use-compress-program=<uncompress|gunzip|bunzip2|lzop> depending on what 
> compressor is detected or user-specification ....

Seems like it should be fairly minor to change it to use

    <-z|-z|-j|--use-compress-program=lzop>

Tim