Hey! Did you see what Marc Mutz wrote on Aug 8 ?

MM> > MM> >         tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
MM> <snip>
MM> > See, just goes to show that you can learn something new each and every day
MM>  Yes, but unfortunately this switch is not recogonized by my version of
MM> tar (GNU tar 1.12) and '/bzip' yields nothing in the man page :-(
MM> "What kinda tar is that?"

The Gnu kind (1.12) :)  My man page does mention bzip (and bunzip) and 
tar --version yields...
               tar (GNU tar) 1.12

Maybe you should get hold of the source and compile your own to include
support for bzip2?


Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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