Re: [sawfish] Re: Future releases as tar.bz2 and tar.xz

[Allan Duncan]

On 18/01/10 20:41, Eli Barzilay wrote:

On Jan 18, Allan Duncan wrote:

On 18/01/10 11:45, Eli Barzilay wrote:

On Jan 18, Allan Duncan wrote:

For those using GNU tar, the man page is less than helpful, use:
       tar --xz -cf<archive.tar.xz>   <source>
If there is an abbreviated option I can't see it.

`j'

Nope, 'j' is for bz2

Sorry, that was supposed to be `J'.

Ah-ha.  Not in the man page, but _is_ in tar --help.