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RE: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
- To: 'Corinna Vinschen' <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- Date: 2001年7月20日 21:55:42 +0200
Hi Corinna,
great, that probably means I can continue to be lazy omitting '-'
at least as long until Win* gets so stable that it can replace *ix 8-)
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:cygwin@cygwin.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 09:29
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Re: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> Uhm, no. The '-' and '--' usages are the correct ones. The '-'-free
> usage of tar is explicitely noted as "old option style" in the
> tar info file. GNU tar tries to be as compatible as possible so
> the old option style will be supported for at least forever or so.
>
> Corinna
>
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