Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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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