--- Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu> wrote:
> bash-2.05$ tar ycvf ugg.gz index.txt
> index.txt
> bash-2.05$ file ugg.gz
> ugg.gz: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
> bash-2.05$
For Nigel:

(tcsh) > tar ycvf core.bz2 kdeinit.core
tar: unknown option y
tar: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete
list of options.
(tcsh) >

Where did you get your version of tar?

For the guy that uses -z, tar --help states:

-z, --gzip,
    --ungzip     filter the archive through gzip

That dog don't hunt...

Andy

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