[vorbis-dev] test suite

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Sat Feb 10 15:45:27 PST 2001



On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 04:48:54PM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> > Well, as you may have noticed, to extract a .tar.gz you use "tar xvzf
> > filename.tar.gz", while you extract a .tar.bz2 with "tar xvIf
> > filename.tar.bz2". That's one character extra, plus an extra shift in
> > the tar options. Since most people are lazy, they use gzip rather than
> > bzip2.
> 
> Really, it's only just an extra shift, because most people probably tab
> complete the file name.  Still, though, it IS a lot of work ;)

Well, bzip2 is also considerably slower than gzip.  Not often an issue, but it can be.

Monty

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