Hi Todd, you wrote in <Pine.NEB.3.95.960829173851.13747X-100000@like.duh.ml.org>: > There's always the classic line run under csh: > > (cd /usr; tar cf - * .??*) | (cd /mnt; tar xfp -) "tar" is slow and will fail on device nodes. -- Matthias Scheler tron@sandra.owl.de