I *think* what I want to do is this.

star -cv /some/dir

then 


tar xvf someDir.tar

Only I wrote my script for back ups *months* ago. and there I'm s/tar
ing a /dev. So any suggestions would be more than welcome. 

Carl P. 



On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 08:50, John (EBo) David wrote:
> Carl Parrish wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know if I tar a directory up with star if i can then untar
> > it with tar?
> 
> if I understand you correctly, yes, but to make sure we are all on the
> same page could you post as close to exactly the command line arguments
> are?
> 
>   EBo --
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