[ale] MS Propaganda representative

keith frost pfrostie at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 15 11:57:44 EDT 2002


It's not used often anymore.

it's kind of an opposite of -v in that it covers
screen with rows and rows of of useless text, instead
of usefull text. very appropriate for the occasion
though.

$ tar --feather teather.test.tar *.*

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\\/\\/\/\/
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\//\/\/\/\\/\/\
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/\/\/\/\\//\/\/\/\/\\/

and so on.
:-)

--- SLane at weather.com wrote:
> 
> I'm not familiar with the "feather" switch on the
> tar command...

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