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RE: tar bug with beta-19?


Hi Jeff, you wrote:

: tar -cvzf foo f.tar.gz or tar -cvf foo f.tar
: 
: it works fine, except it excludes files that are compressed with gzip.

Assuming foo is the directory, you swapped the args. Should be:
  tar cvzf f.tgz foo or tar cvf f.tar foo


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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