On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:35:54PM +0100, Andy Doran wrote:

 > > Is this really needed ? Note NetBSD gzip understands
 > > bzip2, so regular x should work as expected even for bz2
 > > tar files.
 > 
 > Sure - this just makes it easier to compress them.

Is there a precedent for this flag?  I am working to eliminate gnu tar
at the moment (replace it totally with pax(1) -- see some changes I made
over the weekend)...

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