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 --exclude options if necessary. They are in a 1.2G tar file. Gone to sleep. Will read tar manual in morning.... Paul Clark