From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Chris Abbey , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Available for test: tar 1.13.8-1 Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 06:11:00 -0000 Message-id: <20001218141101.6567.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00808.html --- 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. :\ > I just use --use-compress-program=bzip2 and I'm done with it. Actually, I was just thinking what needs to be done is to remove all of the short switches and force the long ones. Support for an environment variable named COMPRESS for the user defined default would also be nice. Remove --use-compress-program and change --compress to do what it does but default to gzip (or the user specified COMPRESS) if no program is given. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- < http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com > --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows < http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ > --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows < http://www.mingw.org/ > --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple