Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:55:27 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20001217211352.A25407@redhat.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20001217202331.029752a0@pop.bresnanlink.net> <20001217213922.A30490@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20001217213922.A30490@redhat.com> Subject: Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0012180955270N.21902@cygbert> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id DAA09779 On Monday 18 December 2000 03:39, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:27:51PM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote: > >At 21:13 12/17/00 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>This version fixes a bug with excluding files. It also > >> incorporates a native '-j' switch which causes tar to use bzip to > >> compress and uncompress. This replaces the previous -y option. > > > >ugh. so there are now *four* different switches for bz2? > >I really wish we could all pick one and standardize on it, > >or has that happened somewhere and it's 'j'? if so point me > >to the "official standard declaration" somewhere... 'cuz there > >are a couple other packagers I wanna beat over the head with it > >until they match. :\ > > This is the sources right from gnu.org. -j is the official switch. > That's what I meant by "native". Unfortunately the only `stable' option seems to be `--bzip2'. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple