On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:07:26 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote: > all right, but this just leads us back to the original question -- > what are the precise semantics of the "--exclude" option? does anyone > have a clear and unambiguous answer for that? whatever GNU tar does, refer to the info page. Glenn