[Kaffe] does anyone care about this jar feature?

[Jules Bean]

On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Tony Kimball wrote:

> Quoth Moses DeJong on Wed, 10 February:
> : jar -x < file.jar
> : 
> : 
> : To be perfectly honest, I do not think this is a feature that
> : anyone should be using and I would rather not add it to my
> : implementation because it causes a number of other "problems".
> : Does anyone think that this feature is worth adding? If you
> : can think of some good reason why this might be a good feature
> : to have please post it to the list so I know where you stand.
> : Please, no "that is how Sun does it" posts.
> 
> These are the reasons that strike me off the top of my head:
> 
> 1.  That is how tar does it.  jar is a tar-compatible interface to
>     zip.  Violating that compatibility renders it more nearly superfluous.

I though tar required the 

tar xf - < ...

version?

Jules

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