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From: gefuchs@goedel.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tar help
Keywords: tar, SUN unix 4.2
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Date: 30 Jun 89 03:55:54 GMT
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Reply-To: gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs)
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hello net, 

suppose i want to tar an entire accound into a tar file named
GUGU.tar

then i type (at the ~ directory)
	tar cvf GUGU.tar .

but after sometime tar tars GUGU.tar recorsively upon itself,
now i have tried all kinds of combinations with the X option for
tar but to no avail, i guess i cannot milk the correct command out of
the man pages

help?

thank you
gill