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.TH TGZ "1" "May 2002" "mtools 3.9.8" "Mtools Users Manual"
.SH NAME
tgz \- makes a gzip'd tar archive
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tgz
[
.I destination
[
.I source ...
] ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Make a gzip'd tar archive with the name of the first parameter out of specified
files or, if no source files are specified, from everything in the current
directory.
If the first parameter is omitted as well, the archive will be written to
stdout.
.SH BUGS
.B tgz
requires gzip in the user's path.
It also needs gnu tar or something close due to use of --exclude, --totals
and -S.
.SH AUTHOR
Filip Van Raemdonck (mechanix@debian.org) wrote this page for the
.I Debian/GNU
mtools package.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gzip (1),
.BR tar (1)