On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:10:34AM +1000, Neil Lunn wrote:
> >From: Steve Jorgensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >using tar -xvzf ...  In all cases where a new directory was 
> 
> By the way the "-" is depreciated. tar zxvf (hey just how I type it) will
> do.

Uhm, no. The '-' and '--' usages are the correct ones. The '-'-free
usage of tar is explicitely noted as "old option style" in the
tar info file. GNU tar tries to be as compatible as possible so
the old option style will be supported for at least forever or so.

Corinna

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