Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:31:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: "Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)" <michael.sherman@og.ge.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar or gtar Message-ID: <20050712133106.GA985@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <42D3C515.7070305@dial.pipex.com> References: <9CC5C6311E4BBB45BF135CAF2B9B6DB4014AC60E@SCHMLVEM04.e2k.ad.ge.com> <20050712120326.GA29851@beatrix.daedalusnetworks.priv> <42D3C515.7070305@dial.pipex.com>
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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 :)
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