Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:08:11 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. > > Hey, that's a nice feature. I didn't know about that. Be careful, it is not part of the POSIX standard and may cause premature hair loss ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Klingons d

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: star

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Skwar
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression >> > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. >> > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" av