Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 01:36:31PM -0600, robert wrote:
>> So, I don't follow then.  Instructions at > 6.59. Udev-161
>> say: tar -xvf ../udev-config-20100128.tar.bz2 ...
>> why not *J*xvf?
> 
>  Apart from the other responses, I can't help commenting that 'J' is
> not 'j'.  I assume you wrote it as a capital for more emphasis, but
> with the last two or three releases of tar 'J' is used for xz
> compression (if you have xz-utils).
> 
> ĸen
yep, just emphasis.  so "tar Jf" would de-archive bz2 and gz?

That's convenient.

r.

In other matters, I'm setting up another machine to step thru the LFS 
build ... don't know what else to do.
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