> ok, i'll give the sysV tar a try and see, if it does
> work then all it 
> needs is gzip ability built in and I wouldn't have to
> look back.

tar cvpf - dir-to-archive | bzip2 -9vc > /var/tmp/archive.tar.bz2

bzip2 -dc /var/tmp/archive.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

> I'm surprised you guys hate GNU so much though.

Hey, if GNU was of high quality and held itself strictly to standards and 
specifications, I would be the first to love it and advocate it!

But when you have a bunch of people hacking away at it thinking that they 
understand UNIX and corresponding problems when they really don't, then the 
result is "GNU is not UNIX".
 
 
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