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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:39:22 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Available for test:  tar 1.13.8-1
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In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20001217202331.029752a0@pop.bresnanlink.net>; from cabbey@bresnanlink.net on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:27:51PM -0600

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".

cgf

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