[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

Anthony Chapman anth at earthling.net
Sun Jul 6 08:17:53 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 17:02, Nix wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Jonathan Dye mused:
> > Perhaps xjf would work better otherwise won't tar try and open an archive
> > called j?
> 
> No; f and similar options look at the *next parameter* for their filename.

That seems like the sensible way to do it, but on Redhat 8 (Gnu tar
1.13.25) "tar -xfj" results in:

tar: j: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

-- 
load "vmlinux.el",8,1

-Anth


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