[lug] tar command with ZIP 250MB

[Dale Harris]

On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 11:48:29PM -0800, Trent Jarvi elucidated:
> cp -R is very ugly when following special file types
> (consider all the symbolic links in /usr/lib/*)  tar
> -xf /dev/? is prefered for the task your after.
> 

While I'd agree that tar is a really good choice, or even cpio.  cp from
GNU fileutils does have the little '-a' (archive) switch which works pretty 
well, too.

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