Hey! Did you see what Ted Gervais wrote on Aug 4 ?
TG> Just wondering the best utility to archive/compress files.
TG> Currently I use ' tar cvzxf file.name.tar.gz files' and that does what
TG> I think might be the best. Is there another way. Does this compress
TG> things the best?
Okay, first of all you are using the wrong switches, you have...
c = create
v = verbose
z = compress using gzip
x = extract (this is the one that's wrong, and I would imagine it
would cause an error)
f = files
Bzip2 is a much better compression program than gzip. I've even heard it
said that bzip2 is better than rar. So use this command line...
tar cvyf filename.tar.bz2 /stuff_you_want_to_archive
Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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