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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:49:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >GNU recommended:
> >
> >$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
> >
> >Seriously, why are long options encouraged?
> >
> there are people that like to write a lot? ;)

no..., otherwise the people generating this thread would cite realistic
examples, rather than writing a lot.

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