From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 08:05:39 -0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021208075857.020abb30@celine> References: <200212070919.CAA12532@cu.imt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 08:08 PM 12/7/02 +0000, Rolf Edlund wrote: >Originally to: Jerry James Haumberger > > > JH> The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or any other > JH> Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from the BasicLinux > JH> console with multiple floppies? And in compressed format? > >One of these commands.. > > # man tar > # info tar > # tar --help > >..will give you all information you need about your tar version. "all" information? Hardly. Neither "man tar" nor "tar --help" gave *me* enough information to be able to answer his original question (though it did point me to the -M option, which I suggested trying), and my system (like many; it really has not caught on, despite pressure from the FSF crowd) does not even have the "info" system installed. (Does BasicLinux install it?) FSF does have a tar tutorial available online (http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar-1.12/html_chapter/tar_toc.html), but even it doesn not answer the original question very clearly. So this was almost a textbook example of a good question for this list ... one that needs more than RTFM answers, but a response (which it eventually elicited) from someone who could provide an example of how to do it. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs