Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:40:34 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Newbie Experience Message-ID: <B287514C-5132-459E-81BB-7D7134E9A2D6@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <20060911211241.GA2211@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <8a0028260609120316q7ab0d7bcydcaec44fea42e325@mail.gmail.com> <200609131921.21645.kruptos@mlinux.org> <200609140829.35834.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote: >> As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them >> (although not >> always). I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( - >> z and -j >> respectively). So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that >> feature. > > In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does > one read > tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when creating a tar > archive. bsdtar(1) recognises bzip2 and gzip compression on reading an > archive and handles them automatically. old habits die hard :-0 Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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