On Sat, 23 May 1998 09:46:41 -0500 (CDT), "David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu> wrote: > > hcopy -r base131 | tar -px --ungzip --same-owner --sparse --unlink I'm quite positive that you also need the tar option `-f -' to tell it to look the stdin for the input. Ken