[vorbis-dev] test suite

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, 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 ;)
> 
Or you just alias it...  It's just that bzip2 is quite slower than gzip,
and more importantly, lots of software transparently reads gzip but not
bzip2.  Not that you want to use the Midnight Commander file viewer on a
movie but thinking whether bzip2 support will be enough for each
particular file is even harder work than a shIft ;-)


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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