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John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> writes:

> Ah, the manpage examples specifically give the --format=tar though.

So what?

> Why not have  --format=tgz  then or something?  Or better yet, give
> the filename on the command line and detect the format from the file
> extension.

That is an interesting enhancement and sounds like a useful feature.