On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:36 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > qtbz2 -O -x /tmp/wget-1.10.2.tbz2 | qxpak -l -O -
> 
> one thing ive never liked about qtbz2 and qxpak is the usage seems obscure 
> ... 
> i need to re-learn the syntax everytime i try playing with them

agree

> can it be improved ?  ive thought about it but havent figured out a good 
> solution ... maybe just add copy & paste examples to the manpage ?  

this is a good start. It would not break existing scripts.

> or change 
> the syntax of qxpak to mimic tar ?  or something else ?

I ended up writing my own C app doing exactly what I wanted. (for
various reasons)

> -mike

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