* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-12-03 15:31-0500]: > Micah Anderson wrote: > > For some odd reason, probably related to if you say 'soda', 'pop', or > > 'coke', some people prefer to call tar.gz archives .tgz, which > > pristine-tar doesn't play with. Its just a different name for the same > > thing. > > The "odd reason" is 8.3 filenames. But, pristine-tar seesm to support > .tgz, as well as variants like ".taz", just fine. Indeed, it doesn't > care about an extension at all. >
I'm not sure I know what 8.3 filenames are, but I just found an article
on wikipedia describing them[0]. It looks like I was lucky and avoided
something in my life that was annoying, perhaps by engaging in another
set of annoyances instead (apples), probably while drinking 'pop'.
So if pristine-tar doesn't really care about .tgz, or even .taz, then
the real bug is just the man page, which says:
LIMITATIONS
Only .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 files are currently supported.
micah
0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename
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