Re: bsdtar fan

From: Olivier SMEDTS <olivier_at_gid0.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:44:53 +0100
2009/1/9 Marius Nünnerich <marius_at_nuenneri.ch>:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Bruce M. Simpson <bms_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Off topic:
>> Tim, thank you for bsdtar. I recently had to muck around with ISO images on
>> a debian box, and mounting them all would have been prohibitive. Thanks to
>> bsdtar, I could just extract the files I needed, without using loopback
>> mounts. That was invaluable. thank you!
>
> When I'm on other systems I constantly try tar xf and fail. bsdtar rocks Tim :)

I totally agree.
Just fed up determining compression type of archives and using z/j
flags with non-bsd tar :)

Thank you Tim !

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