Re: tar switch order. was:Re: StarOffice 5.1

[Kenneth Stephen]

Charles,

        That has been my experience on other Unix systems, however GNU tar
appears to be more intelligent.

Regards,
Kenneth

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Charles E Gelm wrote:

> <snip>
> > cd /opt; tar xfzv <full path of so.tar.gz file>
>                 ^
> Doesn't the 'f' have to be the last switch?
> Doesn't the 'x' have to be the first switch?
> 
> 
> <snip>
>