If you are using gzip, you can't do it directly -- gzip compreses a file,
not a set of files. First you use tar to create an archive; tar itself can
invoke gzip. You do it with (approximately) this command:
tar -cvzf archive.name.gz /mnt/cdrom/doc/HOWTO/
At 05:51 PM 3/27/00 +0000, you wrote:
>I'm trying to compress a whole dir /mnt/cdrom/doc/HOWTO
>how do I do zip up a whole directory including all directories within
>it...
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