Request for review: i18n extraction

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 22:35, Chris Howells wrote:
> > "man tar" says:
> >       -O, --to-stdout
> >               extract files to standard output
> >
> > I learned it while I wrote that, just to not use an extra temp file.
>
> I'd be hesitant in case that isn't portable to other versions of tar.

BSD tar does it as well. Solaris tar doesn't, though. However, isn't this 
mostly relevant for the hosts that the i18n extraction occurs on? Even 
translators working on Solaris machines will be fetching the extracted i18n 
files, not generating them themselves, won't they?

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