On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Jason Dale wrote: > Hello, > > 1) When I do a man page on 'tar', the screen comes up all garbled. I believe > this was discussed on the list a while back, but I can't seem to find those >mails > that will shed some insight on why this is happening. Does this have something >to > do with the $TERM variable? > > 2) I am using 'tar' to create a backup of a directory structure to another Linux >server > on the same LAN. Here is a screen dump: > > # tar -cvzf -f 209.212.123.157:/usr/backups /tmp/testdir > > Gives this output > > tar: 209.212.123.157\:/usr/backups: Cannot stat: No such file or directory I am unaware that tar will send a file to another machine as your are trying to do. This can be done using rsh or probably ssh but not directly. Also tar files for sanity sake should end in a .tar extension. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
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