Re: Gzip problems
--- Mark Ferlatte <ferlatte@cryptio.net> wrote:
> Larry said on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:35:36AM -0700:
> >
> > --- Mark Ferlatte <ferlatte@cryptio.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > What is the exact commandline that you used to
> gzip
> > > your files?
> >
> > In a directory I wanted to move, I typed gzip *
> >
> > I didn't do the recursive command (didn't know
> about
> > it), but moved to each directory in the tree and
> did
> > another gzip *
>
> Huh. I tried this, and couldn't reproduce your
> problem either.
>
> I forget: was there a reason you didn't want to use
> tar? That's usually what I do:
>
> tar -czf mydirectory.tar.gz mydirectory
>
> will create the tar.gz, and
>
> tar -xzf mydirectory.tar.gz
>
> will create mydirectory again.
>
> M
>
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature
The media I used wouldn't hold an entire directory,
and gziping the files let me copy to the media till it
was full, then again, etc.
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