On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 22:03, Jim Householder wrote: > Hi > > On several occasions I have retrieved a source tarball. The instructions have had > > gzip -cd product-XX.tar.gz | tar xvf - > > to expand it. What is the difference, if any, between that and > > tar xzvf product-XX.tar.gz The top will work with a non-GNU tar, the bottom won't. -- Craig Ringer