Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:30:57 +0800 (WST) | From | Matt Kemner <> | Subject | Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency |
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Matti Aarnio wrote:
matti> bunzip2 < your.interesting.tar.bz2 | tar tvv
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
rhw> I can't try that at the moment,
BEFORE you make wild statements like the following, PLEASE try it for yourself, before you decide to post your "authoritative" reponse to this mailing list. Why is it that the majority of your emails to this list start with "I can't try this at the moment" or "I'm not expert on this" or similar, and you usually end up being wrong?
rhw> but if the tar manpage is any guide, rhw> that won't work as tar without the -f assumes /dev/rmt0 as the input rhw> source, and that doesn't even exist on my system...
live:/tmp# bunzip2 < kernel.tar.bz2 |tar tvv drwxr-xr-x kemner/src 0 1998-12-29 12:44 linux.ac/ -rw-r--r-- kemner/kemner 12630 1998-12-11 10:45 linux.ac/Makefile drwxr-xr-x kemner/src 0 1998-12-29 12:44 linux.ac/fs/ -rw-r--r-- kemner/src 6155 1998-11-14 02:07 linux.ac/fs/stat.c -rw-r--r-- kemner/kemner 4942 1998-12-11 10:41 linux.ac/fs/Makefile -rw-r--r-- kemner/kemner 7899 1998-12-11 10:41 linux.ac/fs/read_write.c -rw-r--r-- kemner/src 7033 1998-11-14 02:07 linux.ac/fs/block_dev.c
Works fine for me. live:/tmp# tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.12 live:/tmp# dpkg -s tar Package: tar Version: 1.12-6
rhw> Q> bunzip2 < l*2.2*4*2 | tar tvvf - rhw> rhw> Does that help?
That line works too, but requires an extra 3 characters that are unneeded, at least for recent versions of tar.
rhw> As an example, here in the UK, most ISP's offer access for a flat rhw> monthly parment, with no charge beyond that. However, they do so on rhw> telephone numbers for which one is charged to dial to by the relevant rhw> telecom company, and THAT charge is by the second, and in some cases rhw> can be quite expensive... rhw> rhw> As far as I'm aware, the USA and Canada are the only two countries rhw> where local calls are free of charge. Certainly one pays for local rhw> calls in the UK...
Here in Western Australia, most ISPs offer access for a flat monthly payment on a "normal" local telephone number. For customers to ring this number they pay AUS$0.25 (about U.S.$0.15) per call, whether the call is 10 seconds or 10 hours.
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