[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

[Nix]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003, Tethys stipulated:
> For some reason, GNU tar changed its -I flag to -j a while ago.

Compatibility with Lesser OSes.

,----[ tar-1.13.25/NEWS ]
| version 1.13.18 - Paul Eggert, 2000-10-29
[...]
| * The short name of the --bzip option has been changed to -j,
|   and -I is now an alias for -T, for compatibility with Solaris tar.
`----

> means use bzip2 compression. Poor choice, IMHO. They should have just
> stuck with -z. For decompression, it can automatically work out which
> type of compression was used

Good idea! (It'd probably tie tar to file(1), though...)

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 written (in hex) matches Ritchie's birthday (in octal).'
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