On Sunday 01 December 2002 08:05 pm, Rene Rivera wrote: > [2002-12-01] Gennadiy Rozental wrote: > >"Robin.Hu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > >> Bzip2 is widely spreaded with GNU software. It is available to all *nix > >> platforms those are available to me, include linux, *bsd, solaris, > >> etc... > >> > >> IMHO, using tar.bz2 instead of tar.gz is a good idea. > > > >Why would not use rar or ace instead of zip then? It already almost as > > much spread as zip is. And twice as small. > > Because none of those; bz2, rar, or ace, will let you do this... > > tar zxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.gz
'tar jxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.bz2' with recent versions GNU tar and 'tar Ixvf boost-1.29.0.tar.bz2' with older versions. -- Alkis _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
