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Olivier SMEDTS <olivier@gid0.org> wrote:

> Just fed up determining compression type of archives and using z/j
> flags with non-bsd tar :)

FWIW, gtar has supported this for some time now, too.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de