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Re: PATCH: _tar (autodetection of compression by GNU tar >= 1.14.91)

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: _tar (autodetection of compression by GNU tar >= 1.14.91)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:49:48 -0700
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On Jun 24,  3:26pm, Clint Adams wrote:
}
} Since version 1.14.91, GNU tar has autodetected compressed
} archives.

I'm not entirely certain this patch is a good idea.  It doesn't
really hurt to have a completer offer things like command-line
options for the latest version of a program, but to complete a
file that an older version won't know what to do with is a bit
worse.

What proportion of zsh users can be expected to have the latest
version of tar?  There is not one single machine where I use zsh
where this completion would be correct, because all of them have
GNU tar but the latest is 1.14.10 (and most are much older).

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