Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 10:27:56 +0000 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency |
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Hi Charles.
> What would be nice is if tar supported bz2 directly so one could > use "tar xvzf foo.tar.bz2".
There's a patch to the tar source that allows a variant of this by specifying Z instead of z and the standard version of tar can be used by specifying the following...
Q> tar -xv --use-compress-program bzip2 -f foo.tar.bz2
Does that help?
Best wishes from Riley.
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