Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 20:11:34 -0800 | From | David <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency |
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Reply to mail from Mircea Damian about us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency ----------------- >> distributions. What would be nice is if tar supported bz2 directly so one >> could use "tar xvzf foo.tar.bz2". > As far as I know there is a patch for tar... but I'm using this small script:
the patch to tar uses -I instead of -z. i've found several distributions already have this implemented in their tar.
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