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Re: another snapshot today (was RE: possible VMS v5.5 fix...)

From:
PPrymmer
Date:
June 14, 2002 12:16
Subject:
Re: another snapshot today (was RE: possible VMS v5.5 fix...)
Message ID:
OFABFF1C84.B899EDDD-ON85256BD8.0069419E@55.25.11

Craig Berry wrote:

!>$ vmstar/extract/verbose/date_policy=none 'tarfile'
!
!I prefer not to get the verbose output for such a large distribution
!as Perl, though with the output going to a log file it probably
!doesn't matter.  The /date_policy=none is probably a good idea.

Sorry - my mistake.  You indeed had tar -xf.  I am so accustomed to
using tar -xvf myself that I added the /verbose out of habit.
It was indeed the /date_policy=none qualifier that I was trying
to recommend.

Peter Prymmer

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