On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:45:18AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > So I'm puzzled as to whether I'm still doing something wrong, or this > new tar doesn't recognize the '-f... -' for the stdin from a pipe > option.
That "..." is a placeholder for "x or t, with whatever other options you want, e.g. v"; you're not meant to type it literally. > /bin/gtar: ./.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments/cdrom.desktop: time stamp > 2020-04-27 15:36:21 is 482063157 s in the future Do the original files have the same bad timestamps? That'll determine whether this is really a bug or version incompatibility in tar, or just a case of shooting the messenger... -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"