Re: [sawfish] Re: Future releases as tar.bz2 and tar.xz

[Allan Duncan <amd2345 fastmail com au>]

On 18/01/10 20:41, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On Jan 18, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > On 18/01/10 11:45, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > > On Jan 18, Allan Duncan wrote:
> > > > For those using GNU tar, the man page is less than helpful, use:
> > > >        tar --xz -cf<archive.tar.xz>   <source>
> > > > If there is an abbreviated option I can't see it.
> > >
> > > `j'
> >
> > Nope, 'j' is for bz2
>
> Sorry, that was supposed to be `J'.

Ah-ha.  Not in the man page, but _is_ in tar --help.