Munir Nassar <m_nassar at yahoo.com> wrote: > > my files!!! > > well ill be darned... and i thought i had a bad file > transfer... > > next install fest you can down that pizza with an ice > cold Carlsberg... Heh, well, I'm transportationally challenged, so don't worry about that. Anyway, I just had to mention that I don't understand why tar doesn't (yet, AFAIK) have a generic uncompress flag. Gzip and Bzip(2) files have magic numbers and proper headers and everything necessary to make the whole thing automatic.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Eat drink and be merry, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ for tomorrow they may \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) make it illegal. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]