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. It still includes the following verbiage: "The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. The maintainer of tar falls into this category. "This man page is neither complete, nor current, and was included in the Debian Linux packaging of tar entirely to reduce the frequency with which the lack of a man page gets reported as a bug in our defect tracking system." 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