On Thursday 02 June 2005 17:16, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Joe Rhett wrote: >> In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude >> list" ? Someone else reported a different syntax that conflicts >> with the man page, but actually makes more sense to the naked eye. >> This may be a documentation problem. > >The documentation is correct: > > exclude file "./some*thing" > this excludes all the files matching name "some*thing" > exclude list "/some/file" > /some/file on the client contains a list of patterns > to be excluded
I'd argue that point, I'm using 'file' to specify a file that contains a list, and its working just fine. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.