tar problem ?

[Phil Windley/20000000]

In article <1990Feb24.010641.1159 at tse.uucp> tim at tse.uucp (Tim Brecht) writes:

	   Can anyone tell me why the following doesn't work ?

	   tar -c -f - dir1 dir2 dir3 | (cd /newdir; tar -x -f -)


I'm afraid that I don't know why it doesn't work for you, because I do this
on my RT running 2.2.1 all the time.  Maybe it helps to know that it SHOULD
work.  Try "cp -r"

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