With COL 3.1 you can use the long option "--use-compress-program=bzip2". Check out `info tar` for all the long & short options.
cmr On Friday 14 November 2003 07:35 pm, M.W. Chang wrote: > Even COL 3.1 doesn't have the -j and --bzip option. I will use the > bzcat2 | tar - method. thanks. > > >>># tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 > > > > Yup. I'm running various SuSE distributions from 8.1-9.0 and they all > > have this option. My only remaining Caldera box (eD2.4), however, does > > not. It appears to have been added in newer versions of GNU tar. -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
