On Wed, 8 May 2002, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:

* Jyry Kuukkanen [May 08. 2002 15:08]:

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Hello

I was stupid enough to install Suse 8, that seems to be either a tateless joke or Mandrake very cunning marketing plot, and I have experienced nothing but pain since then.

At the moment I would like to get tar xfIv foo.tar.bz2

I have been deprecated for a long time, use tar xfjv instead.

...

- or - tar xfzv bar.tar.gz

to work, but no. No, I have to

gunzip -c foo.tar.gz | tar xfv -

Weird. tar xfzv works fine here, can you show me what it says?

Oh dear. Silly me. Too hasty sometimes :-) I had a bad CD-ROM drive that caused me trouble with .gz files and since "tar xfIv" is trule depreceted, "tar xfjv" works fine. Thanks for correcting my silly accusations. Shame, shame and brown paper bag for a month... --Jyry C:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-( M$-Outlook: Experience a new virus every day! - Koe uusi virus joka päivä!

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

On Wed, 08 May 2002 16:18:33 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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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@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