Re: What about bzip2?

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

DervishD wrote:

> In modern distros, I've seen that the same is accomplished by
> using -j, but in my hand compiled tar (directly downloaded
> from the GNU site), this cannot be used. I must use the
> --use-compress-program option (quite big and ugly).

Are you using the alpha release from
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ ?

If yes, I think you broke something. I've been using the -j
option since it was introduced IN THE ALPHA releases and it
always worked. And yes, I compiled all.

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