On 11/19/2009 9:54 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Actually, specifying Gnu tar options without the - is only supported for > compatibility with other/older tar programs. > Seems my facts were not. :-) I had thought I had used short options on an old Xenix box that I had brought back from the dead recently, hardware from around 1987 at best guess...maybe a little older, box was a 386-DX. That was actually a fun project, a box that had given 20+ years of service shows up out of nowhere, guy just called one day. I have no access to check now as everything was migrated off and sent to the trash heap. Anyway, thanks for the correction.
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