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.
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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@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/resume.html
Ah! I'm pleased to note that I wasn't the only one who was irritated by that! alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org