OpenEuphoria

Re: Q: tar.gz

• Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Nov 23, 2003
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Come to think of it Jerry, as adept as you are with
Irv's EuGTK program, you could probably easily write
your on Euphoria Archiver...   :) :) :) I guess that
would make it EurArc, but if you share it with us
maybe EuArc would be better.

Ken




--- Ken Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Here is a link to an online tar tutorial:
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_toc.html
> 
> from the console or a terminal try this:
> 
> tar cvf targetdir.tar /targetdir
> 
> Executed from above the directory targetdir should
> create a tar file named targetdir.tar
> To automatically gzip the directory and files use:
> 
> tar cvzf targetdir.tar.gz /targetdir
> 
> reference: Running Linux, p. 192
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> --- Jerry Story <jstory at edmc.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I used to use Gnozip to make tar.gz files.
> > Then I upgraded from Mandrake 8.2 to 9.something.
> > 
> > Now Gnozip doesn't work. It used to work.
> > 
> > I have 4 compression programs. Not one works
> right.
> > 
> > (Also Conqueror doesn't work as well as it used
> to,
> > but that's a minor detail.)
> > 
> > But the main thing I'm interested in is how to
> make
> > a tar.gz file.
> > I want something that adds files and directories,
> > both.
> > And it has to arrange stuff right, like
> directories
> > inside a directory.
> > 
> > gzip doesn't work either. It tar.gz-ed each file
> > individually in a
> > directory. What the 773H kind of stupid thing to
> do
> > is that?
> > It was supposed to tar.gz the whole directory.
> > 
> > Maybe would have been better staying with Mandrake
> > 8.2.
> > 
> > What do I gotta do?
> > 
> > Jerry Story
> > 
> >
> > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group.
> > FREE!
> >
> >
> 
> 
> TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group.
> FREE!
>
>
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