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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] tar -O
From:       Glenn McGrath <bug1 () optushome ! com ! au>
Date:       2003-05-19 2:03:59
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On Sun, 18 May 2003 22:28:20 +0200
Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:

> hi folks
> 
> tar -O should output any data to stdout. i just find, that -O
> overwrites the settings for -x.
> tar -xOf works, but tar -O -xf doesn't.
> 

Thats not going to be trivial to fix, the common unarchiving code
currently only handles one extraction target, it didnt occur to me that
people would use -O -x.

I will have to think about it.



Glenn
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