On 9/4/07, Richard Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be a really stupid question but here goes. In the Xorg > installation sample script shown in the BLFS book the tar command > appears to work without the -j option. How is that?
In newer tar (>= 1.15?), it will automatically decompress the archive if necessary. I haven't looked, but the implementation probably just looks at the filename rather than doing any magic number type guessing. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
