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This chapter is paced to allow beginners to learn about tar
slowly. At the same time, we will try to cover all the basic aspects of
these three operations. In order to accomplish both of these tasks, we
have made certain assumptions about your knowledge before reading this
manual, and the hardware you will be using:
`argument'
mean, and the
differences between relative and absolute file names.
See and what else?tar
commands in. When we show file names,
we will assume that those names are relative to your home directory.
For example, my home directory is `/home/fsf/melissa'
. All of
my examples are in a subdirectory of the directory named by that file
name; the subdirectory is called `practice'
.In general, we show examples of archives which exist on (or can be
written to, or worked with from) a directory on a hard disk. In most
cases, you could write those archives to, or work with them on any other
device, such as a tape drive. However, some of the later examples in
the tutorial and next chapter will not work on tape drives.
Additionally, working with tapes is much more complicated than working
with hard disks. For these reasons, the tutorial does not cover working
with tape drives. See section Tapes and Other Archive Media, for complete information on using
tar
archives with tape drives.
See this is a cop out. need to add some simple tape drive info.
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