[H-GEN] I'm stumped.......

Craig Eldershaw ce at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Fri May 22 11:23:13 EDT 1998


>On Fri, 22 May 1998, Craig Eldershaw wrote:

(Oh dear...following-up on myself...)

>> tar -cf - /source | tar -xf - /dest

That should have been:

tar -cf - /source | (cd /dest ; tar -xf -)

>i weas going to mention this option, but as I have never done it myself
>felt I would leave it to an expert ;)

I should have done the same...oh well the priciple was right. :-(

Cheers,
	Craig.

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