[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2416: t.vect.export using no compression argument results in creation of an archive

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#2416: t.vect.export using no compression argument results in creation of an
archive
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 Reporter:  egoddard       |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  7.1.0                    
Component:  Temporal       |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  t.vect.export  |    Platform:  Linux                    
      Cpu:  x86-64         |  
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Comment(by huhabla):

 The behavior of the temporal export modules is intentional. The
 compression flag is related to the compression method used for the
 generated tar archive. Tests using the latest trunk version indicates to
 me that the generated tar archives can be extracted using "tar xf
 stvds.tar".

 It is important to specify the suffix of the archive, in this case ".tar",
 otherwise the file manager may not be able to detect that this file is
 actually a tar archive.

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