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
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