bash-2.05$ tar ycvf ugg.gz index.txt
index.txt
bash-2.05$ file ugg.gz
ugg.gz: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
bash-2.05$

I don't see what the problem is.

Regards
Nigel

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 09:41:16PM -0800, Andy R wrote:
> 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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