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From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)
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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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