According to Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> on Sun, 11/20/11 at 05:46: > > It looks like tar in extraction mode automatically recognizes xz > compression in the file to be extracted from. > > Section from the man page for tar in FreeBSD 9.0-RC1: > > -J, --xz > (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with xz(1). In > extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike > other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes XZ com- > pression automatically when reading archives.
You see? That just goes to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to "get there from here" - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [email protected] 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
