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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Is there some way to tar all but selected directories of a partition?
I am trying to replace the disappeared files on C: without also including 
Windows and Progra~1, via linux ethernet file transfer.

I can simply use DOS llpro to transfer the 100MB of DOS files (I would 
have to move the computers together as the cable is shorter) but would 
rather learn more about tar.  The --help and man pages for BL2 
(non-busybox) tar have something about --exclude-from=FILE, where FILE is 
a list of globbing patterns, whatever that is.  I made a file with the 
names of the directories to exclude, which did not work.

The busybox tar has far fewer switches but has proved useful other times.

Linux will boot from the D: or C: drives when the computer is 
formatted/sysed with DOS 7.10.  If I boot with FreeDOS floppy disk loadlin 
does not work ('not an image file') even with the kernel on the partition 
formatted with 7.10.  If the kernel is on a floppy disk formatted with 
Win98 DOS loadlin works.  So I am stuck with DOS 7.10 for this computer 
unless someone can explain how to set up lilo to choose between DOS, BL3 
and BL2, with DOS as default.


I do not want to send files/directories via linux  one at at time because 
I have dozens of DOS directories to transfer (which together take up 1/3 
the space of Windows and do more).  I may do the larger ones that way and 
the rest with llpro.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org