--- Tom Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:40 pm, Myles Green dropped these
> nuggets of information:
>
> Hi Myles,
>
> Sorry it took awhile to get back. No problem with the questions.
> Answers dispersed throughout.
>
> >
> > A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was
> > the command you used?
>
> tar cvf mail.tar mail
Ummm...is 'mail' a file or a directory? If its a standard UNIX mail
file, then its, well, a file. tar is for creating archives of multiple
files. tar has no effect whatsoever on a single file. Have you tried
just viewing the contents of mail.tar with a random text editor, or even
less (or more) ?
> Can you see what's in the .tar file using some
> > utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander?
>
> KArchiver errors out with " I can't fork a decompressor". I don't
> have
> midnight commander installed.
Try something like xedit. I strongly suspect that mail.tar = mail .
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