From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 04:38:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03711 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:38:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from colossus.dyn.ml.org (dburr@206-18-115-231.la.inreach.net [206.18.115.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA03660 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:38:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr@colossus.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from dburr@localhost) by colossus.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA29783 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:41:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dburr) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 04:41:17 -0800 (PST) Organization: Computer Help From: Donald Burr To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: questions-digest V4 #119 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My secret spy satellite informs me that on 17-Mar-98, questions-digest wrote: > hey all, > > now that i've got my scsi HP SureStore T41 tape drive working, I can now > tar to the tape. My question now is how do I take advantage of > compression? Can tar do this or must I use a different program? Just use the "z" flag to tar. Example: tar cvzf /dev/nrst0 /some/directory/to/archive - --- Donald Burr - Ask me for my PGP key | PGP: Your WWW HomePage: http://DonaldBurr.base.org/ ICQ #1347455 | right to Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNQ5vbPjpixuAwagxAQFqhgQAnMU6n5JDrLCGmUpMYVJZUQiTUagZ7L6A SjH1hIGV2SubkeRuOQR7ga48bwgP86z/uogO/v9hIYfNqt81EkO6+EPrx61ugPS7 NK4iO8IJoYi+d/zNFyWYCYFK2XC0/Jf44m6QQDLxc0LCcladLCXILUujskys56YT A+oyxIryBJM= =s87s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message