From: Jason Grosland <jcg3@cs.duke.edu>
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  Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:17:45 -0500

Re: tar?

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Huned M. Botee wrote:

> > i can't get tar to work as in the tutorial.  is it just me?  i tarred and
> > gzipped and submitted, but i have never done this before so i'm not sure if
> > it was right.....
> > -luke
> 
> LIke most unix commands, tar has a man page as well. It can do a better
> job than I can at explaining the utility. 'man tar'

You also should note the difference between tar and gtar.

For example you can only do an inline zip with gtar:

gtar czvf tarfile.tgz *.cc *.h

But you can do the following with either:

tar cvf tarfile.tgz *.cc *.h
gtar cvf tarfile.tgz *.cc *.h

-Jason

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