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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: problem with tar -xvzf and permissions on W2K
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:55:42 +0200
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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 AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 20, 2001 09:29
> To:	'cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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