tar( bzip2 parts of manpage )

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Mon Mar 10 18:26:12 UTC 2008


On Monday 10 March 2008 00:19:33 Danny Pansters wrote:

> Note that both
> bsdtar and bzip2 are in base and have been for a while so it seems like a
> logical feature for bsdtar. Knowing whether its a gzip or bzip2 compressed
> is easy to see from magic numbers.

And done by the fabolous base library: libarchive(3).
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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