On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:52:52 +0100 (MET)  Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

> >Number:         6901
> >Category:       pkg
> >Synopsis:       there is no easy way how to handle bzip2ped archives
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 28 08:05:02 1999
> >Originator:     Jaromir Dolecek
> >Release:        NetBSD-19991207
> >Environment:
> 
> >Description:
> 	Some packages (KDE 1.1 at least) use tar archive compressed
> 	by bzip2 instead of "standard" tar.gz. We might assume
> 	there will be more such packages in future, as bzip2
> 	compression is generally better than gzip one. There should
> 	be some standard way how to handle such packages, so it
> 	won't be necessary to hack each one separately.


I wrote a patch for gzip that identifies bzip2 files during decompressing.
That way I can "tar xfpz <file>" for all the "current" unixish compression
methods going around at the moment.  Any interest in adding them to the
gzip we currently use?

Simon.