Re: [ProgSoc] getting the website files

[Gabriela Marcionetti <gabriela@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Andi Halliday wrote:

> arhallid@nospam.ftoomsh:/home/www/html$ tar -cvzf
> ~/progsoc.org-webpages.tar.gz --exclude=./lists --exclude=./horde --exclude=
> ./clubs
> tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
> Try `tar --help' for more information.
> arhallid@nospam.ftoomsh:/home/www/html$

It probably would have been easier to get all of them manually by now.
For the moment, why not just: cp /home/www/html/local/*.html ~/public_html
and work on it there.  Its pretty much the extend of what you can change.

What I'm assuming you want to do is make it look pretty, in which case all
you need to do is figure out a style sheet.

> thats what it spits out :(  damn my incompetence. must learn UNIX!!! :)
> any ideas?

Actually, you'd be surprised at what you are learning now.  Probably most
of the other first years haven't heard of ssh or tar or anything like
that.  Best way to learn is to actually use unix.  I assume that in one
of your subjects, you will have to do a unix test, and having been a tutor
for this subject (when it was a bit different) it was really surprising
how much (or, to be more precise, how little) unix some students
knew.  The more time you spend hanging about on progsoc, trying to do
things, the more you'll learn, unintenionally.

-- 
Gabriela Marcionetti
Vice President

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show
you how it's done."  -- Scott Adams




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