So sprach �Michael D. Viron� am 2001-10-03 um 10:12:00 -0500 : > >d1) tar cfvj foo.tar.bz2 foo/ > >d1a) Note: j is a "new" option. Old tar's used y as the bzip2 switch > > Actually, the tar in Mandrake 7.2, uses I for bzip2.
Oh, yes, that's right. Forgot about this one. Thanks for pointing this out! In conclusion - if it's unknown what version of tar is available, I'd say the best option is to use --use=bzip2 if .bz2'd tar files are to be created/extracted from. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de iso-top.de - Die g�nstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 5 hours 31 minutes
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