Oh der! Yeah - unzip it, append to it, the re-gzip it. Shuh - I always 
do things the hard way... You can use -u for updating changed files. 
Sheesh - after going thru this list of options: 
http://man.splitbrain.org/tar(1) I'm amazed at just how few of the 
features I use in the seemingly simple tar!

Cheers,
Mike
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Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 5 May 2006, Erik Bixby wrote:
> 
>> While I was waiting for a response, I figured I'd see if leaving off
>> the compression helped.  That still seems to munge the files...  I'm
>> preparing to go with plan "b;" just use lots of individual files.
> 
> Uncompress the tarball first. Then do the appending (also without 
> compression).
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
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