From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 06:49:19 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 1037C16A412 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:49:19 +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 9B84A43D49 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:49:17 +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 7FBBB31D1D8 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:48:46 +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 04579-04 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:48:46 +0200 (SAST) Received: by sirian.hst.org.za (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5188D31D1D6; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:48:46 +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 A445131D1CB for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:48:45 +0200 (SAST) From: Jonathan McKeown Organization: Health Systems Trust To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:50:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609140850.47347.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 06:49:19 -0000 On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > > > 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 Exactly. I wondered, when I saw the entry in tar(1)'s manpage, how many other little tricks I don't know because I just do it the old way. If I ever get a supply of tuits (round ones are best, apparently), I might start re-reading the documentation for things I already know how to do, just to find out what I'm missing. Jonathan