From lee@piclab.com Tue Feb 12 10:43:40 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lee@piclab.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 12 Feb 2002 18:43:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 67048 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2002 18:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Feb 2002 18:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piclab.com) (216.121.191.70) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2002 18:43:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (lcrocker@localhost) by piclab.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01978 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:43:37 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: piclab.com: lcrocker owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:43:34 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: lcrocker@piclab.com To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] tar(1) tao In-Reply-To: <20020212172423.M1747@bapli> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Lee Daniel Crocker X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1436760 X-Yahoo-Profile: bowtie95841 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 13244 On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, John Leuner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 04:30:20PM -0500, pycyn@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 11/23/2001 1:26:00 PM Central Standard Time, > > b.gohla@gmx.de writes: > > > > > > > The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. > > > The path that can be specified is not the Full Path. > > > > > > > What the fatal fandango is "tar(1)" and how is it related to Tao (in the > > original)? Nuzzling into Linux suggests it is a function deep in all the > > eunuchs but I am not sure that any of that applies here (nor what the "(1)" > > means). Archiving a path doesn't seem to be the same as walking it -- or > > describing it, depending. So, that joke failing, what is going on? > > to 'tar' something is to bundle it in a 'tape-archive'. > > the specifying of a path probably doesn't have to do with the archiving above. To be more specific, "tar" is the Unix command for making tape archives; it collects a set of files and combines them into one file that can be later resplit. The (1) is the section of the online manual pages, indicating that you can get the manual page for the command by typing "man 1 tar" (although in this case, "man tar" would work just as well because it's not ambiguous--sometimes a user command might have the same name as a library function or system call, though, so the number is there to disambiguate). -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC