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Bug ID 4404421
Synopsis RFE: tar command -z and -j support
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory utility:archiver
Keywords bzip2 | gzip | kiss | modern_times | tar
Responsible Engineer burridge
Reported Against 5.8 , s10
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix snv_137
Fixed In snv_137
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_137)
Related Bugs 6267081 , 4077963 , 6463634 , 6504469
Submit Date 12-January-2001
Last Update Date 14-April-2010
Description 
Solaris tar command ought to support the -z and -j command line arguments
to compress/uncompress using gzip and bzip2, respectively.  [Suggested flags
from the GNU tar command.]
Now that libz.so and libbz2.so are part of Solaris, please consider adding
this compression functionality to tar.
Work Around 
N/A
Comments 
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