[BusyBox] does tar not extract arguments recursively?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon May 10 23:42:56 UTC 2004


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Glenn McGrath wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:16 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >   thoughts?  is this the expected behaviour?
> 
> What tar options do you have enabled... if the tarball was made with
> compatability mode nabled you need to enable support for it in busybox
> tar.

um ... what option are we talking about here in BB?  i just did a config
and i don't see any option referring to compatibility mode for tar.
i have version 20040427.

rday



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