[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:17:53AM +0100, Anthony wrote:
> 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

That's because you placed a dash in front.  If you just do 'tar xfj'
then it works.  Leaving out the dash makes gnu tar use the traditional
'old style' tar invocation method.

-- 
Bruce

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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