Re: [TCLUG:7144] bzip and tar

[^chewie <chewie@nerp.net>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Michael Hicks wrote:

> Okay, I just compiled tar 1.13, hoping that it would automagically
> add in an option to handle bzip2 archives.  I tried running it,
> and it didn't say anything.  Searching through the Changelog, I
> find out that the options for using bzip2 have been _removed_..  
> Probably some stupid licensing issue..  Bah!!
> 
> Is that what the 'b' is for?  BSD-style license? (as opposed to
> 'g' on GNU gzip..)

No.  Bzip2 uses a different compression algorithm.  It's a different
program alltogether.

^chewie

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