Spot on Richard.
Yep there was a single directory named janet.d, and the files sat in the
root were .tiff's.
Many thanks oh bright one :o)
here's a this week story.
Student scanning. I saw her on the scanner for 3 hours. Mmmm i thought, lets
see what she's been scanning.
So on me samba server i had a nosy. Well me spare space of 3.5G had shrunk
down to 750mb... U i thought.
So what had she done. well she was scanning a ring, not to complicated
really. But for the fact that she scanned it at 800dpi at 24bit colour AND
scanned the whole scanning area. well 184Mb for a ring, what made it worse
was the fact that she did it 16 time, with the ring in a different place on
the scanner each time.
If only these lecturers could teach :o)
I got here to do it again, but just the once. Still at 800dpi ( mega
overkill for what she wanted but i wanted to show her the difference using
selective scanning ) and the final result was under 15Mb and one file.
Phe.
She said, it took a long time to save em...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Urwin
Sent: 06 November 2002 2:23 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused
You're showing your roots.
*.* is a MS pattern. The corrosponding Unix pattern is *
I guess that tar backed-up everything with a dot in it?
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Richard Urwin, Private
No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Ken Walker
Sent: 06 November 2002 13:55
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [newbie] Tar'ing - I'm confused
I tried to Tar to dat from a smbmount and use the following,
tar cvf /dev/nst0 *.*
It stopped after about 400mb
Tried it again and it did the same, so i tar'd to the hd such as
tar cvf /usr/Cad12/tartest *.*
and it did the same thing, stopped at about 400mb.
It tar'd one folder and the loose files in the root of where tar was run
from.
So then i did
tar cvf /dev/nst0 .
and that did the trick
The question is, *.* implies everything, and '.' implies the current
directory. Anybody know why it only did one folder and its contents and
loose files in the root.
The total was about 26 folders and 4.4Gb.
Kenny baby :o)
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