bsd flameeyes@gentoo.org The bsdtar program creates and manipulates streaming archive files. It has a number of advantages over previous tar implementations. Build bsdtar and bsdcpio as static archives, removing dependencies over the enabled compression libraries (lzmadec, libbz2, zlib). Allow accessing bzip2-compressed archives through libbz2 (which comes with bzip2). Allow accessing lzma-compressed archives through the lzmadec library.