>
> 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...
> --------------------------------------------------
> -y, --bzip2, --bunzip2
> filter the archive through bzip2
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> If your copy of tar doesn't support it, perhaps you could get hold of the
> source and compile it with bzip2 support.
I have version 1.12 as well, but it seems different distro's do different
things, remember the --MARK-- thread.
Why go to all that trouble, (if one could call it trouble), just go to;
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/compress/bzip2/
and get the _real thing_.
>
> Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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Regards Richard.
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