Re: files with tar.gz

[Thornton Prime <thornton yoyoweb com>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:

> >    tar xvfI bzip2ed.tar.bz2
>
> In a future version of GNU tar, the -I flag will be replaced with -j to
> provide cross-compatiblity with Solaris, which uses -I for something
> else.

Bah.

While it makes sense, IMNSHO Solaris should be pressed to be compatible
with GNU tar. GNU tar is far superior to Sun's tar, and now there are far
more people using GNU tar than there ever have been Solaris tar users.

One of the first things I do on any Solaris machine I get is install GNU
tar (the very first being that I install gzip).

thornton