[Xastir] libtiff / geotiff install hiccup

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:38:40AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, T Wegner wrote:
>
> > 2)   tar -xvzf xastir* (for example tar -xvzf xastir121-2003-Jul-02.tgz)
> 
> "tar" is one of those weird Linux/Unix commands that doesn't use
> dashes for the options, so I believe it should be something like:
> 
>      tar xvzf xastir121-2003-Jul-02.tgz
> 
> unless they've messed with "tar" on the Mac to require the dashes.

Tar doesn't *require* dashes, but gnu tar (and bsd tar and perhaps others) 
accepts them.  So "tar -xvf archive.tar" is the same as "tar xvf archive.tar" 
and the same as "tar -x -v -f archive.tar".  Been this way for a long time.  
Of course, it was the other way (not even allowing them) for much longer.

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