[2002-12-02] Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >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...
OK, I stand corrected ;-) -- grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 102708583@icq _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
