On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>
> Per thanks for the detials. It is now working under tar using /dev/ht0.
>
> Does Tar compress files?? and can you tell it to restore filed to a
> diffrent directory ??
There is an optional argument '-z' you can give to tar to compress files.
I am not sure if it works on this drive. I have not tried to restore
files to a different directory but '-C directory' might work.
>
> Man tar came up as no entry avialable.
>
try 'info tar' or 'tar --help' instead
Regards
Per
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