> > ha ha haa...you got burnt by a linux fanatic...this
> is fun!!
> > This message posted from opensolaris.org
>
> Can people please grow up and take the OS advocacy
> elsewhere.
>
> It is not fun for those of us that need this lists
> for real work.
just last comments: first, I wasn't advocati
On 7/18/05, Jake Hamby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I did a more "scientific" test and uncompressed the archive first.
FIRSTLY : This is great work ! Really !
I am sooo happy to see someone actually perform and experiment and
then provide data.
> Test system: 2.8GHz Pentium 4, 512MB
> > "Perversions" is an inflammatory word. Sounds like
> > you might be trying to start a fight. Are you?
>
> Start a fight with whom? ...
With anyone.
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Jake Hamby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, I did a more "scientific" test and uncompressed the archive first.
> Then I ran every version of tar at least twice (gtar three times b/c the
> first two runs were so different). I ran star at the end to make sure the
> results weren't getting sl
> "Perversions" is an inflammatory word. Sounds like
> you might be trying
> to start a fight. Are you?
Start a fight with whom? Are you offended? Do you identify yourself with
Linux?
As for perversions, Linux is perverted in many different ways, which have been
listed about a zillion-trillio
> I respectfully disagree. While it does make sense to
> have fewer
> --options on regular usage command lines for
> convenience/speed, I think
> the --options are fundamentally important for
> relatively new users to
> the environment and I certainly don't think you
> should be alienating
> them.
> > $ time gtar -xjf
> ~/Downloads/kde/KDEkderequired-341.tar.bz2
> >
> > $ bzcat ~/Downloads/kde/KDEkderequired-341.tar.bz2
> | time tar -xf -
>
> It's dangerous compairing these two - in one you're
> running time on the
> entire decompress/untar process, whilst in the second
> you're only time'
Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Star ised -bz long before GNU tar started with -j
> >
> > Star implement -o as documented on SUSv2 (UNIX-98)
> > GNU tar does not correctly follow this standard.
>
> but Jorg, now that -j is there and is present all over in many places, does
> it not make sen
> Star ised -bz long before GNU tar started with -j
>
> Star implement -o as documented on SUSv2 (UNIX-98)
> GNU tar does not correctly follow this standard.
but Jorg, now that -j is there and is present all over in many places, does it
not make sense to provide an alias for -bz and -o in star.
