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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:
	src/lib/libarchivearchive_read_support_compression_all.c
	archive_read_support_compression_bzip2.c
	archive_write_set_compression_bzip2.c
	archive_write_set_compression_gzip.c
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On Fri, 2004-Jul-30 04:14:47 +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>  This will allow the library to be easily ported to systems
>  that don't have these libraries.  (Of course, it also means
>  that clients using the library on such systems will not be
>  able to take advantage of the automatic compression format
>  detection.)

How difficult would it be to detect bzip2/gzip input and produce a
"[bg]zip compression not supported" rather than a generic "this
input looks like garbage" message?
-- 
Peter Jeremy