tarfile woes

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:20:20 -0300, rumours say that Gustavo Niemeyer
<niemeyer at conectiva.com> might have written:

>>  - It does not handle compressed (.Z) archives. Of course there's
>>    noone to blame. The gzip utility (which is used by gnu tar) handles
>>    this ancient algorithm, but apparently, zlib does not. :-(
>
>    >>> import bz2
>    >>> print bz2.decompress.__doc__
>    decompress(data) -> decompressed data

[snip]

I fell into the same trap; Hans talks about files compressed with
"compress", the old unix compression mechanism (not as old as 'pack',
though), that had an extension of '.Z'.
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