Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:05:35
Message-Id: 200709261149.18659.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:59:00 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > > Pardon? "tar xf somefile" doesn't do any compression at all.
3 > > I don't get what you mean.
4 >
5 > No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. Of course, you do
6 > have to specify a compression method when creating a compressed archive.
7
8 Heh. unpack() doesn't even take advantage of that. It also doesn't use -j but
9 it does use z to decompress tar.gz files.. ;)
10
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12 Bo Andresen

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