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Date: Sat,  5 Feb 2005 17:19:00 +1100
From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm
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Respect Doug.  Pipes are your friend. Or throw emacs into tar.
I'm sure that's not out of line with "don't use pipes".

brucee

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:38:17 +0100, boyd, rounin <boyd@insultant.net> wrote:
> > I've written a new (faster) tar and at Russ's suggestion have made it
> > recognise the compressed tar archives.
>
> i'm opposed. compress/uncompress programs should do that.
>
> tar should tar.
>
> or write a script that uses file etc and does the right thing.