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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:38:04 -0800 (PST)
From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
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cc: Joe Lira <joe@joe.to>, BMICK@bigpond.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Tar Files
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On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:

> Joe Lira wrote,
> > to compress * into filename.tar:
> > 
> > tar -cvf * filename.tar
> 
> Two things,
> 
> 1) The archive name/device should be the first argument, i.e.
> 
> % tar cvf filename.tar *
> 
> 2) tar does not do compression. If you want to do compression try,
> 
> % tar cvf filename.tar *
> % gzip filename.tar

or just tar czvf filename.tar.gz *

under FreeBSD, since it has that option (Is FreeBSD using gnu tar, out of 
curiosity?)


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