On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Shawn Fertch wrote: > On 8/2/05, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: >> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Shawn Fertch wrote: >> >>> I'm looking at the man pages on both Slackware 10.1 and RHELv3 systems >>> with the following specifications: >>> >>> --exclude FILE >>> exclude file FILE >>> -X, --exclude-from FILE >>> exclude files listed in FILE >> >> Thus "FILE" is a plain text file containing a list of directories or files >> that are not to be backed up. I think that is different from your >> original interpretation. > > No, there is a distinct difference between the man pages I am looking > at, and what was mentioned by Karl: I see ... in the bit I quoted above, "FILE" is used in two different ways. I agree that some of the differences between distros don't make sense. Is Slackware all GNU or are some of the utilities modified? Mike