frugal: tar and compress

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 10:10:37 -0400
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
To: CSuite Testing Reports <csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
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What exactly do you mean by preserves teh directory?  Do you mean
retains /var/csuite/home/01/aa001/ on the front of paths or do you
mean that dir/dir/file is retained rather than being stored just as file

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, David J. Murdoch wrote:

> [8]Tar and compress (using GNU gzip) preserves the directory
> [9]Package and compress (using zip) does not preserve the directory
> it this expected?
> --
> 	David Murdoch
> 
> 
> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Math, Stats and Computing Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net



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