That's why the advice "man tar" was appropriate.  I'm tar 1.13.17 and
it's still -I.

Thanks everyone.

          - Dave


> > Hmm..  Now that makes three things I've seen for bz2 files:  `tar
> yxvf'
> > `tar Ixvf' `tar jxvf'
> 
> Yeah, that was my reaction, too - I expected to find -I, but I guess
> Debian's
> tar has changed it (relatively) recently.  According to tar --help:
> 
>   -T, -I, --files-from=NAME    get names to extract or create from
> file NAME
> 
> (tar --version identifies itself as "tar (GNU tar) 1.13.18".)
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