Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> >> You have not read "PACKAGE_README".
> >
> > This is really the answer.  I missed this document, things should work fine 
> > with it.
> 
> One minor nit in the document, it uses "xargs" to collect a file list for
> "tar", but the file list may be too long for one command invocation:
> 
>     % cd INSTALL_ROOT
>     % rm -f SOMEWHERE/outputfile
>     % find . \! -type d -print | xargs tar cf SOMEWHERE/outputfile
>     % gzip SOMEWHERE/outputfile 
> 
> With "tar c", only the last batch of files are in the tar archive. The
> command should be "tar rf" not "tar cf".

On what systems does the list exceed the NCARGS command length limit?

        Wietse

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