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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:12:20 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
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klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote:
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> How can i force tar also to archive empty subdirectories?
> Per default tar does not add empty subdirectories to the archive.

The only archiver I know which ignores empty directories is WinZip.
Don't use WinZip on tar files.

Corinna

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