Hey! Did you see what Richard Adams wrote on Aug 8 ?
RA> >
RA> > On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
RA> >
RA> > > MM> Steve Youngs wrote:
RA> > > MM> >
RA> > > MM> <snip>
RA> > > MM> > tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
RA> > /|\
RA> > Is 'y' correct........|
RA>
RA> No it must be a typo, i presume it was meant to be a "z".
No it is definately _NOT_ a typo. The following is pasted directly from
the man page (Gnu tar 1.12)...
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-y, --bzip2, --bunzip2
filter the archive through bzip2
-Z, --compress, --uncompress
filter the archive through compress
-z, --gzip, --ungzip
filter the archive through gzip
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I use...
tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_to_archive
and...
tar xvyf filename.tar.bz2
all the time. It works like a treat! :-)
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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