On Sep 19, 2:57pm, Paul.Koning@dell.com (<Paul.Koning@dell.com>) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [tz] Time zone change in Turkey - lzip | | > On Sep 18, 2016, at 8:17 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote: | >=20 | > Oscar van Vlijmen wrote: | > ... | >> I couldn't find anything in the lzip documentation to tackle a tar. | >=20 | > That's right. lzip is like gzip, and does only compression and decompress= | ion. tar is a separate program for doing archiving. This is in accordance w= | ith the software tools philosophy of having different programs for differen= | t tasks. | | Sort of. For a very long time now, tar has had switches to invoke compress= | ion or decompression along with the archive operation. "z" for gzip, more = | recently "j" for bzip2, and more recently still "J" for xz compression. NetBSD has made gunzip detect the compressed format so -z just works. It is a trivial change, and friendly to the user. christos