From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 06:40:35 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 58BB816A403 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:40:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF6F43D5F for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:40:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1GNktm-000Nj0-HG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:40:34 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org> <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:40:34 -0600 To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false 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 06:40:35 -0000 On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > 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. old habits die hard :-0 Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net