On Sunday 17 December 2000 02:15, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> I have no experience with any BSD, am trying to decide if I can install
> NetBSD on present computer or new computer I am shopping for.  I have
> experience with Linux, and believe tar, or at least its main functions,
> behaves about the same across all Unixes.

Actually, in Solaris and IRIX you can't use the -z flag, so you have to 
gunzip first and then use -tar -xvf.  I guess it's the same for other Unixes.

Cheers

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