On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:58:35PM -0800, Andy R wrote:
> 2. Is the NetBSD version of tar going to continue
> using the -use-compress-program option or is it going
> to adopt the -y or -j (or whatever) FreeBSD uses to
> filter through bzip2? I'm lazy, I know...

You mean like the -y option?

     -y
     --bzip2
     --unbzip2               Filter the archive through bzip2(1).
     -Z
     --compress
     --uncompress            Filter the archive through compress(1).

Regards
Nigel

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