From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 06:28:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D57216A4A7 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:28:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za (sirian.hst.org.za [209.203.2.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D57243D49 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:28:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonathan@hst.org.za) Received: from localhost (localhost.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1231B31C5DE for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:27:35 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sirian.hst.org.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sirian.hst.org.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02779-01 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:27:34 +0200 (SAST) Received: by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D54C431C5C6; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:27:34 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za (sysadmin.int.dbn.hst.org.za [10.1.1.20]) by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A16131C529 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:27:34 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:29:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org> In-Reply-To: <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on sirian.hst.org.za X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hst.org.za Subject: Re: Newbie Experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:28:25 -0000 On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote: > As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them (although not > always).  I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( -z and -j > respectively).  So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that feature. In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when creating a tar archive. bsdtar(1) recognises bzip2 and gzip compression on reading an archive and handles them automatically. Jonathan