On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:15 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I'd do a tar tjf gambas-1.0.17.tar.bz2 | more just to see where it's ging to > end up. Almost gcertainly, it'll create a gambas-1.0.17 directory relative to > where you currently are ( eg /home/alan? ), so the need to either create a > directory, or redirect it are unnecessary.
To elaborate on the options to TAR t: table of contents j: Bzip compressed f: File. The "j" option is often switched for "z": gzip compressed (a .gz extension) and "t" is often switched for "c" or "x" (create or extract). *Normally* tar-files create folders, which have the same name as the file sans-extensions. Note this is the opposite to what Zip files *normally* do under Windows. -- Michael JasonSmith http://onlinegroups.net/ Usability Engineer
