Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| [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
|
| ...to extract the contents!
If this is GNU tar it will let you do:
tar jxvf boost-1.29.0.tar.bz2
instead...
--
Lgb
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