Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:32:29 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT ieva01 DOT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: bzip2-0.9.5d port for djgpp
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> One more note. Perhaps it would be usefull to release patched version
> of tar-1.12 (or 1.13) for DJGPP to support tar command line option
> to support bzip2 compression in tar. However it seems not clear which
> option to use. Latest tar snappshot I downloaded from alpha.gnu.org
> (tar-1.13.13) uses option -I (equal to --use=bzip2). This option is
> not in original sources of tar-1.12 and tar-1.13.

GNU Tar has changed the maintainer, lately.  Unfortunately, the new
maintainer started working on Tar 1.13 from v1.12 sources, where there's
no DJGPP support.  The DJGPP support was incorporated into a couple of
pretest versions by its previous maintainer, but he didn't release any 
official version, and it will take a while before the new maintainer will 
get to merging the DJGPP support into Tar.

Unfortunately, this means that Tar 1.13 will not support DJGPP, and I 
cannot afford to do all that hard work of re-porting Tar 1.13, which I 
did for 1.12 (the sources are *very* different).

When the current Tar maintainer gets to work on incorporating the DJGPP 
support, I will help him do it.

I might release the last pretest version I have on my disk that did 
support DJGPP, if I have time.  But there's no bzip2 support there.