Yeah, but correct me if I'm wrong, -y is an invalid
option to tar in NetBSD/i386 1.5.2. I do see it in
FreeBSD though.

Andy

--- Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu> wrote:
> 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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