Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 09:51:37PM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> Like you said elsewhere, we don't actually invoke gzip ourselves, we
> simply pass the `-z' option to tar.  Since tla already requires GNU
> tar, and GNU's tar supports the `--bzip2' option[1], perhaps someone
> interested in nicely compressing binary files would like to write a
> patch so tla supports using bzip2 compression?

Opening a pipe between forked copies of tar and gzip/bzip2 shouldn't
be too hard, either, though it requires a little more coding.

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