Problem with Archiving .tar

[Derek Broughton]

Paul wrote:

> Hello Richard.
> 
> I don't have this option in my right button menu.

I do - never used it until Richard asked, though...

> Have you tried to do it manually?

it is, of course, important to do that, to determine where the problem
really is.
> 
> In a console, type:
> cd $HOME/.kde/share
> tar -cvf /tmp/mytarfile.tar ./apps
tar -zcvf /tmp/mytarfile.tgz ./apps
> 
> later I recommend you to do a:
> gzip /tmp/mytarfile.tar
> 
> just because tar doesn't compress, just packs the files together.

That's TWO people who've said that!! Of course it does:

$ tar --help | egrep "\-[zj]"
      --no-ignore-command-error   treat non-zero exit codes of children as
  -i, --ignore-zeros         ignore zeroed blocks in archive (means EOF)
  -j, --bzip2                filter the archive through bzip2
  -z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip   filter the archive through gzip

-- 
derek