> However, I do wonder why GNU tar can't be smart enough to figure out
> what you meant when untarring with -z? I get why we need -j and -J
> for creating archives, but when unpacking them, what's wrong with
> using magic numbers to detect the compression format?
On Mac OS X Lion, this actually happens: Regardless of the compression
algorithm, you always use `-z' while extracting.
Werner
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