Re: Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-30 Thread Jim Dawson
PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 Subject: Re: [newbie] Creating archive On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 08:33 am, Joe Hill wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). we'll use bz2 for l archives just to fsck with them! mua ha ha ha h... .rar is pretty

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On Wed, 28 May 2003 09:32:26 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday May 28 2003 08:33 am, Joe Hill wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 19:10:42 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not all Windows computers can read them (WinZip can't). we'll use bz2 for l

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 09:32 am, Joe Hill wrote: .rar is pretty good, most Windoze machines can work with it. I believe WinZip can. It's proprietary tho. I don't use it to make archives, but I'd be lost without unrar used with File Roller when it comes to d/l'g rar's in many parts

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? John Hmmm...strange - I checked all the

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:56, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI.

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:10, _nasturtium wrote: I think I'll usurp his job and add my 2 cents... Tar simply puts all the files/directories into a single archive. Zip actually compresses it. Used together you get a .tar.gz, where you get the benefit of archiving an entire directory tree

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:22, John Richard Smith wrote: No mention of Tar in my right-click menu. John Well that's just bloody odd... I can't seem to find anywhere to define this in the KDE Control Centre or anywhere else - in the Konq settings neither... John, have you checked the

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? John

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday May 29 2003 04:56 am, John Richard Smith wrote: That is what I'm beginning to wonder, I had assumed it was a default system install. I don't even know what the name of the packages are to install it ? John John, check an see if kdeaddons and kdeutils are installed. I'm just

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:57, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to create a tarball from my home directory, but I'm confused about one thing. When I do: # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar /home/marco or # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar.gz /home/marco seems to have the same result.

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread _nasturtium
On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:57, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to create a tarball from my home directory, but I'm confused about one thing. When I do: # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar /home/marco or # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar.gz /home/marco seems to have the same result. Both are