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From: "Rolf Edlund" <linux-net@tcob1.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: tar for "full" floppy backup?
Date: Wednesday, 11 Dec 2002 18:12:59 +000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MSGID_110=3a301=2f11_3df78273@linuxnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20021208075857.020abb30@celine>

Originally to: Ray Olszewski


 RO> "all" information? Hardly.

Hmmmm...

 RO> Neither "man tar" nor "tar --help" gave *me* enough information to be
 RO> able to answer his original question (though it did point me to the
 RO> -M option, which I suggested trying),

If his version of Tar hadn't have the -M option, that had not worked for him.

 RO> and my system (like many; it really has not caught on, despite
 RO> pressure from the FSF crowd) does not even have the "info" system
 RO> installed.

As I wrote "One of.."

 RO> (Does BasicLinux install it?)

Dunno that..

 RO> one that needs more than RTFM answers,

It was not my intension to be a RTFM answer..

... A quote is a quote is a quote is a quote..

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-11 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-07  9:24 tar for "full" floppy backup? Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-07 18:34 ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-07 20:08 ` Rolf Edlund
2002-12-08 16:05   ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-09  7:32     ` ichi
2002-12-11 18:12     ` Rolf Edlund [this message]
2002-12-08  8:36 ` ichi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-09  7:00 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-09 10:32 ` dashielljt
2002-12-08 18:38 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-09  8:10 ` ichi
2002-12-08 21:07   ` dashielljt
2002-12-09 18:11     ` ichi
2002-12-09 10:16       ` dashielljt
2002-12-09 12:38       ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-12-07 16:58 Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-12-08  8:41 ` ichi
2002-12-07 20:03   ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-08  2:10     ` whitnl73
2002-12-06 21:47 Jerry James Haumberger
2002-12-06 22:25 ` dashielljt
2002-12-06 22:26 ` dashielljt
2002-12-06 23:35   ` Chuck Gelm
2002-12-07  0:10     ` Ray Olszewski
2002-12-07  0:53     ` dashielljt

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