Hi Corinna,
great, that probably means I can continue to be lazy omitting '-'
at least as long until Win* gets so stable that it can replace *ix 8-)
Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 09:29
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> 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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