On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:

: Yes, I think it is sort of counter-intuitive that in the case of
: "-xpzvf" order matters, while in "xpzvf" it doesn't.

Well, it's actually very intuitive in the case of the dash:  see getopt(3);
it's much more standard.  In the case without the dash, you're working with
_historic_ tar options.  On several tars on other platforms, this is also
the case.

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== Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Business tv@lucent.com)
== So you know what, Mikey?  Go to bed.