[Techtalk] tar xfvj

Devdas Bhagat devdas at dvb.homelinux.org
Wed Mar 3 13:44:01 EST 2004


On 02/03/04 08:40 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
<snip>
> Thanks Telsa and everyone. I finally found the -j option in 'info tar'. It's 
> not mentioned in 'short option summary.' It's in the 'Option Summary' node- 
> under b, for --bzip2. (insert ritual 'info suxors' rant.) However, I did 
> finally discover how to do string searches in info. From inside any info 
> page:
info uses emacs keybindings. May I recommend pinfo instead, which is a
lot saner and easier to work with?

Devdas Bhagat


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