On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:05:53AM -0600, Nate Straz wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 08:17:58AM -0600, Dan Drake wrote:
>> Whose bright idea was it to have `j' be the option for handling bzipped
>> tarballs? And whose not-very-bright-at-all idea was it to *change* that
>> to `y'? My Debian unstable system has "j tar", the math department has
>> "y tar". It drives me nuts!
>

Write a wrapper script that runs "file", checks tar version and acts
accordingly. Personally I try to make sure my machines are all fairly
standard across the board that way. It's not just admins who use my
machines and users tend to bitch about that stuff.



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