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From: davy@pur-ee.UUCP (Dave Curry)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: tar fs copy
Message-ID: <3408@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 09:30:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 09:30:41 1985
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Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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In article <13700116@uiucdcs> acheng@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU writes:
>
>Our 4.2 version of tar.c doesnot have a -C option nor does the man page
>says so.  What is it suppose to do?
>
>In the search of the 'C' option, i found an 'F' option.  Again, no comment,
>no man page coverage.  


The 'F' option is neat.... if you double it, 'FF', then tar will
not put any files whose names end in ".o" onto the tape.  For
example:

	tar cvFF /usr/src

would put all the sources on, but leave the objects off.  I don't
know what a single 'F' does...

--Dave Curry