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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Cc: "Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)" <michael.sherman@og.ge.com>,
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Subject: Re: tar or gtar
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On 2005-07-12 14:26, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only
>> see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an
>> option called -Z.
>
> -Z is compress -- possibly gtar only.  It's much worse than the
> alternatives and is only useful for compatibility.

That probably explains why bsdtar doesn't support it for -c then :)