Re: [boost] Re: Boost release compressed by bzip2

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-02 10:34:28

[2002-12-02] Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>| [2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>| 
>| >
>| >"Robin.Hu" <huxw_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>| >news:20021202110427.1E4F.HUXW_at_knight.6test.edu.cn...
>| >> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all
*nix
>| >> platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris,
etc...
>| >>
>| >> IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea.
>| >
>| >Why would not use rar or ace instead of zip then? It already almost as
much
>| >spread as zip is. And twice as small.
>| 
>| Because none of those; bz2, rar, or ace, will let you do this...
>| 
>|     tar zxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.gz
>| 
>| ...to extract the contents!
>
>If this is GNU tar it will let you do:
>
>        tar jxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.bz2
>
>instead...

OK, I stand corrected ;-)

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