Re: On Hypermail archives..

[V S Ashoka <vsashok@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>     Also pls note that I'm not quite sure about the tar commands.

	tar is actually `tape archive'. But one can fool the system by
asking it to create a tape archive onto a file on the disk - you will use 
	tar option targetfile sourcefiles
	
	eg:  tar cvf mp.tar *.htm
would put all the files with htm extention into mp.tar (c is create, v is
verbose and f is file - otherwise the machine would like to send it to
standard output which is a tape drive.) You would use to `untar' it, 
	tar xf mp.tar 
 or 
	tar xvf mp.tar
(verbose will give you a list of what it is doing, x is for extract)
tar will not compress. So you compress it further by using gzip or
`compress' thus creating tar.gz, tgz or tar.Z files.
Ashok


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