Will Senn scripsit:
Thanks, that'll teach me to read the man pages
more carefully even
when the command is familiar in its modern form.
Note that if -f is not given, modern tars still default to the tape
drive, /dev/st0 on Linux or /dev/sa0 on *BSD.
--
John Cowan
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five
points of the second, six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six.
--blazoning the U.S. flag