[tz] Time zone change in Turkey - lzip
Paul.Koning at dell.com
Paul.Koning at dell.com
Mon Sep 19 14:57:29 UTC 2016
> On Sep 18, 2016, at 8:17 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
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> Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
> ...
>> I couldn't find anything in the lzip documentation to tackle a tar.
>
> That's right. lzip is like gzip, and does only compression and decompression. tar is a separate program for doing archiving. This is in accordance with the software tools philosophy of having different programs for different tasks.
Sort of. For a very long time now, tar has had switches to invoke compression or decompression along with the archive operation. "z" for gzip, more recently "j" for bzip2, and more recently still "J" for xz compression.
paul
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