[vorbis-dev] test suite

[David A. Gatwood]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Lourens Veen wrote:

> Well, as you may have noticed, to extract a .tar.gz you use "tar xvzf
> filename.tar.gz", while you extract a .tar.bz2 with "tar xvIf
> filename.tar.bz2". That's one character extra, plus an extra shift in
> the tar options. Since most people are lazy, they use gzip rather than
> bzip2.

And that's a recent addition to tar.  The majority of my machines don't
support the l option, and I end up doing "bunzip2 -c filename.tar.bz2 |
tar -xvf -"

David

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