From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject: RE: tar bug with beta-19?
19 Aug 1998 04:03:04 -0700
Message-ID: <009CAEAB.53C4A820.14451.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: jdeifik AT turbo DOT ni DOT net
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de

Hi Jeff, you wrote:

: tar -cvzf foo f.tar.gz or tar -cvf foo f.tar
: 
: it works fine, except it excludes files that are compressed with gzip.

Assuming foo is the directory, you swapped the args. Should be:
  tar cvzf f.tgz foo or tar cvf f.tar foo


Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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