On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 02:28:17PM -0700, Aaron Nelson wrote:

> According to the man page (if I unstood it correctly), you can't mix
> argument styles ( these styles being no dash 'tar cvf', single dash 'tar
> -c -v -f', and double dash 'tar --create --verbose --file').

Eh? I don't remember the last time I did a binary upgrade without it
involving `tar --unlink -xvpf`.

I don't see where the man page prohibits this, and it seems to work in
practise...

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