Steve Sobol wrote:
> Um... I had to use bunzip2 first and then tar...
>
> I have no I command-line switch in my version of tar
Oddly enough, gnu tar differs per version or per platform which switch
it uses for bzip2, if it supports it at all. The makedist script just
uses the two-step approach. If you want to uncompress without the
intermediate step, 'bzip2 -dc something.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -' will do
the trick.
Emile
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