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Subject: Re: bsdtar fan
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Bruce M. Simpson <bms@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Off topic:
> Tim, thank you for bsdtar. I recently had to muck around with ISO images on
> a debian box, and mounting them all would have been prohibitive. Thanks to
> bsdtar, I could just extract the files I needed, without using loopback
> mounts. That was invaluable. thank you!

When I'm on other systems I constantly try tar xf and fail. bsdtar rocks Tim :)