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Re: gzip


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: gzip
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:18:04 +0200 (IST)

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ahamed Kaize wrote:

> I am using Gzip.exe version 1.2.4 for DOS,
> 
> Can you please tell me the command to  I make a *.gz file out of all the
> files in the current directory?

The command is "tar -cf ./* | gzip -9c > archive.tgz".

In other words, you need a port of Tar, since Gzip compresses each file 
separately.  Gzip is not an archive manager, it's a file compressor.



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