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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] ZSTD compression support.
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Adam Borowski |
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Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] ZSTD compression support. |
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Date: |
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 06:06:18 +0100 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:28:07AM -0800, Shawn Landden wrote:
> + ct_xz,
> + ct_zstd
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> there should be a comma after ct_zstd. compilers can accept this now.
Yeah, that's much nicer for diffs. I wanted to follow the old code, but
you're right here.
> You are missing concatenation -A support. Zstd has special compatibility with
> concatenation
> (read the man page)
I'm afraid I don't get what you mean -- is there's anything besides
accepting two concatenated streams, like every compressor supported by tar
other than ncompress can do?
> and as such you should change the tar man page to document that -A works with
> zstd, and make
> sure -A works with .tar.zstd archives.
-A doesn't seem to allow compression at all, am I missing something?
Meow!
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