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: Mark Sheppard Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:20:12 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: binutils-2.11.2.tar.bz2 Message-ID: <20010621162011.B10044@ddf.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 12:02:59PM +0200, Piotr Kasztelowicz wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, bmj2001 wrote: > > > tar --use=bzip2 -xf > > How about use gzip as more known and accetable standard? Bzip2 is getting more popular as it has better compression than gzip. It is a slower algorithm, but the speed of computers is increasing so that's getting to be less of a problem. Tar already supports bzip2 with the -j option (newish GNU tars that is): tar -jxf whatever.tar.bz2 Mark. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple