On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:38:40AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, T Wegner wrote: > > > 2) tar -xvzf xastir* (for example tar -xvzf xastir121-2003-Jul-02.tgz) > > "tar" is one of those weird Linux/Unix commands that doesn't use > dashes for the options, so I believe it should be something like: > > tar xvzf xastir121-2003-Jul-02.tgz > > unless they've messed with "tar" on the Mac to require the dashes.
Tar doesn't *require* dashes, but gnu tar (and bsd tar and perhaps others) accepts them. So "tar -xvf archive.tar" is the same as "tar xvf archive.tar" and the same as "tar -x -v -f archive.tar". Been this way for a long time. Of course, it was the other way (not even allowing them) for much longer. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
