[BusyBox] does tar not extract arguments recursively?

[Robert P. J. Day]

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.

the tarball was actually a slackware .tgz package.  i didn't realize that
i might need compat mode for that.  a recursive extraction just seemed 
like an absolute no-brainer for tar to recognize.

rday