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From: Bill Wilson <atijapan@gol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: simple question about tar
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:02:18 +0900
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Hello.

I have an exteamly simple question about taring files on freeBSD. How
can I tar everything within a directory, including files subdirectories,
files within subdirectories, etc. 

With bsdi it's simply tar -cvf /public_html, but I am getting "can't
open directory" errors with the same command in freebsd.

Thanks, and appologies for the level of this question.
Bill Wilson
atijapan@gol.com