From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 12 20:42:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26302 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 May 1997 20:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26297 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 20:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caipfs.rutgers.edu (root@caipfs.rutgers.edu [128.6.37.100]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA11295 for ; Mon, 12 May 1997 20:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darkwing.rutgers.edu (darkwing.rutgers.edu [128.6.111.4]) by caipfs.rutgers.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA12480; Mon, 12 May 1997 23:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (davem@localhost) by darkwing.rutgers.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) id XAA21612; Mon, 12 May 1997 23:38:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:38:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199705130338.XAA21612@darkwing.rutgers.edu> From: "David S. Miller" To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co CC: tom@sdf.com, chuckr@mat.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <3377F32D.10DB@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> (pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co) Subject: Re: GNU is not tar Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:50:53 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" tar -cbf filename.tar 10 * Doesn't work ! tar --create --file filename.tar --blocksize 10 * works! Does: tar -cbf 10 filename.tar * work? That's how the argument value ordering is supposed to work last I checked. ---------------------------------------------//// Yow! 11.26 MB/s remote host TCP bandwidth & //// 199 usec remote TCP latency over 100Mb/s //// ethernet. Beat that! //// -----------------------------------------////__________ o David S. Miller, davem@caip.rutgers.edu /_____________/ / // /_/ ><