On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 08:32:33AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: > My point is that the -I option *doesn't* mean "uncompress this file using > bzip2" for anything other than GNU tar. Now that it doesn't mean that for > GNU tar either, people are complaining. I think they probably shouldn't have > been using -I to start with, at least not as a matter of habit or in scripts > that might live for any decent length of time or have an application on any > non-GNU system.
If we're expected to avoid any advanced features, why do the authors bother to implement them? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>