Hi all, This isn't more on topic than the original subject, but I allow myself to share this very valuable information. From the NEWS file of GNU tar version 1.15 (which isn't in Debian unstable yet, I do not even remember how come I ran into this): "version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20
* Compressed archives are recognised automatically, it is no longer necessary to specify -Z, -z, or -j options to read them. Thus, you can now run `tar tf archive.tar.gz'." :-) It's irrelevant for Ira's question, as tar can't guess if you want to compress an archive. But now it knows to decompress it. If it had this option a few years ago, it would sure have saved me a few tens of times re-running tar commands with j and z replaced. But of course I prefferd to suffer than to think a bit and write such a patch myself (or even a wrapper script). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
