Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Add support for lzip to lz/uz

[David C Niemi]

I think it is time to think about doing something with lzma, but is lzip 
or xz the more commonly available command?  They use different extensions 
too, I suppose we could look to see what is available.

DCN

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Now that GNU tar has added direct support for lzip[1], it is perhaps time to 
> offer the same capabilities to other platforms through the lz/uz commands.
> [1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
>
> The attached patch adds lzip support to lz/uz, fixes bzip2 support (.tb2), 
> and documents the changes in the man pages for lz and uz.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Antonio.

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