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To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Cc: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>,
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Subject: Re: GNU is not tar
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> The GNU tar bug must be something very stupid, one notation is accepted
> and the other isn't (something like this):
> 
> tar -cbf filename.tar 10 *				Doesn't work !
> tar --create --file filename.tar --blocksize 10 *	works! 

Umm, how about:

tar -cbf 10 filename.tar *

The order is important. :)


Nate