On Mon, 5 May 2008 08:17:01 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:

> > That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2
> > and gzip compression and handle it automatically.  
> 
> You are correct.  I didn't realize it could detect.  Thanks for
> the info.

It may only save one character when using it fro the command line, but it
makes using tar in scripts a lot cleaner.


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Neil Bothwick

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