[BusyBox] -d support for gzip

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Thu Dec 14 00:30:56 UTC 2000


Richard June wrote:
> 
> Anybody who uses gnu tar with busybox will need this so that tar -tzf and
> tar -xzf (possibly others) will work.
> 
> *** gzip.c.orig Wed Nov 29 11:04:40 2000
> --- gzip.c      Tue Dec 12 12:37:30 2000
> *************** int gzip_main(int argc, char **argv)
> *** 1820,1825 ****
> --- 1820,1829 ----
>                         case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4': case '5':
>                         case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9':
>                                 break;
> +                       case 'd':
> +                               gunzip_main(argc, argv);
> +                               exit(0);
> +                               break;
>                         default:
>                                 usage(gzip_usage);
>                         }
> 

Hi, this looks like a nice way to get gzip to call gunzip, but i dont
follow what it has to do with tar.

Glenn





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