On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/28/07 13:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > > > my thought on this... I don't know how tar links in to bzip2 (which is > > a compression option for tar (-j?). But maybe its possible to > > substitute pbzip2 through something as simple as a symlink. Its a > > stretch I know, but worth a shot. Also, out of curiousity, why not > > > $ apt-cache show tar > [snip] > Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6-1) > Suggests: bzip2, ncompress <<<<<<<<<<< > > $ apt-rdepends bzip2 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > bzip2 > Depends: libbz2-1.0 (= 1.0.3-7) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< well I said its a stretch... and I see that pbzip2 depends on the same library, so it must just be a frontend that carves up the file into chunks and sends it out to the different processors (I know naught of these sorts of mechanisms). IOW, some serious hackery would be involved to get it to do what he wants... A
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