Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: How do you unarchive with TAR?
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.140333.27906@eci386.uucp>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <90320.093455TJS111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Nov16.220430.28688@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6277@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 14:03:33 GMT

In article <6277@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:
|
|therefor I recommend:
|tar -xfvo <filename>
|

I recommend the same general practice, but I suggest writing it as:

tar -xvfo <filename>
       ^^

The "fo" is an easy way of commenting on the competence of the person
who made the default mechanism to be the choice that cannot be
recovered from.
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