From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IaSyK-0003Kt-4W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:14:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8Q93sUI004396; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:03:54 GMT Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8Q8xOs2030582 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:59:24 GMT Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D961CDF47 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:59:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:59:00 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star Message-ID: <20070926095900.3330a18e@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3952863.rKYaOu5uJV@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> References: <46F53CC6.30503@addcom.de> <200709221923.59083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <46F55B7F.5010200@addcom.de> <200709222200.33355.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <1344772.8mdDTN8kXs@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <2831404.7zBJE4lrJ8@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <46F90C23.20204@gmail.com> <2734612.RV0q0BIfvm@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070925152701.45f054f2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <1210223.JpbI81628Y@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070926081837.3d5c2310@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <2021306.3IsArpDem0@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <20070926093501.655f6ef1@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <3952863.rKYaOu5uJV@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1cvs28 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Sender: neil@digimed.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/3CukUcAwBXLAa3pfqRP6gCw"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 8fa1b327-4bb6-497d-a628-1a85bcd6bfab X-Archives-Hash: b7b4c378f2b01751af5add9fc690bf9b --Sig_/3CukUcAwBXLAa3pfqRP6gCw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:45:51 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression > > used before you can decide where to pipe tar's output, if at all. > > Whereas something like "tar xf somefile" avoids the need to do" file > > somefile" and parse the output first. =20 >=20 > Pardon? "tar xf somefile" doesn't do any compression at all. > I don't get what you mean. No, but it does do whatever decompression is required. Of course, you do have to specify a compression method when creating a compressed archive. --=20 Neil Bothwick If only the good die young then what does that say about senior citizens? --Sig_/3CukUcAwBXLAa3pfqRP6gCw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+h9fum4al0N1GQMRAgPSAJ9h2aVZm6OSMPP0papK6eYxIXWWVwCeK9hd RfFtRxnOzlyNpxcTnMsls+E= =JCrz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/3CukUcAwBXLAa3pfqRP6gCw-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list