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From: Ian Bruntlett (Ian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-05 03:16:33


From: "Jeff Squyres" <jsquyres_at_[hidden]>
> > Actually, I've never seen a trend one way or another to indicate
> > "anti-social behavior". In fact, I personally hate zip files that
> > create a subdirectory. I *always* create the directory myself, unzip
> > there, and in the (about 50%) cases where it created another
> > subdirectory underneath mine I copy the stuff back.
I always test & list (tar -tv, if I remember correctly) a tar file before
extracting .

> Command line unixy people tend to look at what was extracted, and wonder
> "what's in 'more'?", and "what's in 'people'?", and "what's the difference
> between 'libs' and 'boost'"?
Use lynx (text mode HTML browser).

Ian


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