Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[alan@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On 15 May 2002 at 18:00, David Benfell wrote:

> On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:18:33 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> > 
> > The -j tells tar that it's a bzip2 file. I found this out by doing a
> > 'man tar'...imagine that.
> > 
> I see that my man page for tar on this SuSE 7.3 system includes a
> description of the -j option.  It has not always been so.  Nor was
> there any description of any option for dealing with bzip2-tar files.

[snip...] 

> Unfortunately, there are a great many of us who abhor Info pages,
> finding them even less useful than man pages which are "neither
> complete, nor current."
> 
> -- 
> David Benfell, LCP
> benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Ah! I'm pleased to note that I wasn't the only one who was irritated by that!

alan

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