From: jliddle@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jean Liddle) Subject: Re: SLS, why don't you use gzip for compression ? Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 00:33:25 GMT
In article <C0r8Kz.CDn@ibg1.ibg.sub.org> ado@ibg1.ibg.sub.org (Christoph Adomeit) writes:
>Hi SLS-Makers,
>
>why don't you use gzip for compression of your Disks ?
>As long as gzip is on the distribution I don't see any compatibility-
>problems.
Forgive him father, for he knows not what he does ...
Before yet another "my compressor is bettor than yours" debate breaks
out, may I suggest a comprimise?
Patch the gnu tar to use gzip -d to unarchive .tar.Z and .tar.z files.
This will allow "tar zxvf ..." to unarchive both compressed and gzipped
tar files. Those who wish to use gzip (.z) on their system may do so,
and those who prefere to remain with compress (.Z) may also do so, without
the need to ceorce (sp?) others to comply.
I have patches to gnu tar from the author of gzip/ungzip, which I can post
if there is interest. It is my impression that at some future date gzip
will become the gnu compression standard, as it is an unpatented algorithm.
Please do not construe this as an effort to get anyone (ftp-sites, SLS, or
anybody) to change ... this is only a suggestion to (hopefully) head off
conflict and (hopefully) reduce traffic on c.o.l.
Jean.