tar vs

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1


On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote:
> I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I
> still can't figure out why this doesn't work:
> 
> $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2
> tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found in archive
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?  Why can't tar handle a wildcard list like that?

  As a refugee from DOS/Windos/OS/2  etc etc.....I have a question.

  What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of tar
over ZIP/RAR for example.



- -- 
Cheers

Frank

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFF/BJo8Rvr3Tn207ARAlyeAJ9mDVdRzgDCcCLcqffqqjGkeCmCDwCeJ1kx
R0lDV4oAU9WHWT9TNmE3JG0=
=Y+G7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----