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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 16:42:44 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: pax(1) gzip functionality 
Message-ID:  <200104261542.f3QFgiM61575@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:21:33 PDT." <20010426082133.B72609@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z
> > options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created.
> 
> Sigh.  They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzip2
> at the same time.  Please let me know after you commit this so I can do
> this.

Is this necessary ?  What's the problem with using a pipe ?  Isn't 
this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ?

Maybe I'm missing something...

> -- 
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

-- 
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