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Tar 1.25

Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Sun 07 Nov 2010 04:42:29 PM UTC.

Tar 1.25 is available for download.  This is mainly a bug-fix release addressing the bugs found in the previous version 1.24:


Alternative decompression programs


If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding compression program is not installed and the following two conditions are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor:

  1. Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this compression format.
  2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc.


For example, if compress is not available, tar will try gzip.


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