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On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:13 -0500, Jeremy Stephens wrote: > How hard is it to tar up a source tree in its own sub-directory? > Obviously for some it must be really difficult. When I 'tar -xvzf > your-cool-program-1.0.tar.gz', it damn well better extract itself into > the 'your-cool-program-1.0' directory instead of crapping all over my > current directory. Yes, and based on frequency of this occurrence, that one point alone is proof enough that the average IQ of a zip user is well below the average IQ of a tar user. Cheers, Martin.
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