[aclug-L] Re: Decompressing .tgz files

[phrostie <phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry, blindly following 4 year old instructions that some one had given me.

it always worked so it became habbit.


"Clint A. Brubakken" wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, phrostie wrote:
>
> > try tar xzvfo file.tgz
>
> o?
>
> the man page says
>  -o, --old-archive, --portability
>               write a V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format
> and I thought that f had to be the last option
>
> Clint Brubakken
> Developer, Computer Science Services Group, LLC
> Dictator-for-Life Air Capital Linux Users Group
> Wichita, KS
> cabrubak@xxxxxxx
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>     We'll call that the wiggly-diggly.
> Cu: Uh-huh.
> G:  When the lights on the wiggly-diggly flash rapidly, click on the
>     thingamajig, and your doodlybum should open.  Voila!  You're connected.
> Cu: Okay ... yeah, I think I got it.  Thanks!
> Ch: Say Greg?
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> Ch: Don't you think that call was a little ... ohh ... precedent setting?
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