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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Post-installation Housekeeping Error
Date: 14 Jul 1996 09:17:50 GMT
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ngocquynh@aol.com (Ngocquynh) wrote:

> tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ),

> I got the error message "tar: unknown option. Use `tar --help' for a
> complete list of options."

The above options are valid.  You must have mistyped something.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)