Re: [Zero-install-devel] Re: 0build errors

[Jeffrey B. H. <je...@hu...>]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 01:34 pm, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> "--" prevents any of the file names being interpreted as options. For
> example, consider what would happen if you had a file named "--help".
>
> What version of tar are you using?

$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

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