On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 11:04:41PM +1000, Timshel Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake
forth:
> > Also, tar is much better about preserving a lot of attributes than cp is...
> > -a or no -a.
>
> Providing you give it the -p option when extracting ... ie:
>
> cd <dest> && (cd <src> && tar -cf -) | tar -xpf -
OK, I should have said "tar *can* be much better about preserving..." :).
Point taken.
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