Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 01:05:44 +0100 (MET) From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de> To: "."@babolo.ru, schilling@fokus.gmd.de Cc: brandt@fokus.gmd.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org, tofergus@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd) Message-ID: <200112060005.fB605ip19599@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
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>From babolo@links.ru Thu Dec 6 00:41:54 2001
>.....
>> STAR Option Description Gnu tar equiv. Remarks
>> =========== =========== ============= ===================
>.....
>> file=nm,f=nm use 'nm' as tape instead of stdin/stdout -f close to identical
>May be close to identical in function, but not in convenience
>What about f=*.[ch] or f=something<tab to expand or ^d to list>
>.....
>> C=dir perform a chdir to 'dir' before storing next file -C identical
>Unconvenient, see above
So you obviously never used star and are only writing about your prejudices.
an option usage
f=value
May be written in the following ways:
f=value
-f=value
f= value
-f= value
-f value
-fvalue
getargs() is a lot more flexible than getopt() and it is even older than
getopt().
Jörg
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