Incoming from Derrick 'dman' Hudson: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:32:21PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > | > | Why don't you avoid problem by using tar on reasonably sized chunks of > | the file tree, and name the tar files concisely? > > I'd rather not have a cd full of tar files since I'm not cramped for > space. It is much more convenient to be able to put the cd in and
Even if you have lots of disk, you may be cramped for getting all your data onto a CD. Then, if you've compressed your data into an archive and burned the archive to CD, you can get individual files/dirs out of the archive by just naming them: cd /lots_of_space tar xzf /cdrom/tararchive.tgz what_you_want_to_get_back -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
