Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:29:12 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K Message-ID: <20010720092912.X730@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" References: <12F176DD950ED411B68E0050DA14ED1033890F@jupiter.gunzphoto.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <12F176DD950ED411B68E0050DA14ED1033890F@jupiter.gunzphoto.com.au>; from neillunn@gunz.com.au on Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:10:34AM +1000 On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:10:34AM +1000, Neil Lunn wrote: > >From: Steve Jorgensen [mailto:jorgens@coho.net] > >using tar -xvzf ... In all cases where a new directory was > > By the way the "-" is depreciated. tar zxvf (hey just how I type it) will > do. 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/