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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:44:53 +0100
From:      "Olivier SMEDTS" <olivier@gid0.org>
To:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bsdtar fan
Message-ID:  <367b2c980901090244t64d33c2fx171cda607914189e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b649e5e0901090232x4af3a98bw5f5964412eb464bf@mail.gmail.com>
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2009/1/9 Marius N=FCnnerich <marius@nuenneri.ch>:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Bruce M. Simpson <bms@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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