Hey! Did you see what Ted Gervais wrote on Aug 8 ?
TG> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
TG>
TG> > MM> Steve Youngs wrote:
TG> > MM> >
TG> > MM> <snip>
TG> > MM> > tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
TG> /|\
TG> Is 'y' correct........|
Yep, sure is. Here's an excerpt from the (Gnu tar 1.12) man page...
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-y, --bzip2, --bunzip2
filter the archive through bzip2
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If your copy of tar doesn't support it, perhaps you could get hold of the
source and compile it with bzip2 support.
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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