Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > You had hard links to directories? Links by dragging from kfm or ln -s. > All the files should still be in the .tar.gz (check what 'tar tzvf > backup.tar.gz' says), so maybe you can create the directories manually > and use some appropriate set of --ex

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > could you please paste a ls -al snippet? total 256 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag 112898 Mar 2 15:34 key_feature -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag94842 Apr 24 12:20 menu_benefits -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag49644 Mar 2 15:33 prod

Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
Paul Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz >archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > >They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into >them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fa

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Paul Clark wrote: > I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz > archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > > They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into > them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in f