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SubjectRe: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
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>>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:

W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz"
W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It
W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples.

It does here, and lzma & xz, too. And has since just days after Lasse
annouced that the new name would be xz.

Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive.

-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6


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