[pmwiki-users] EPUB creation Re: limit on size of cookbook recipes

[John Rankin]

>
> By the way, if you exclude the backup files and the .DS_Store files which
> are not required for this recipe to work, you'll have a smaller archive,
> only 168,688 bytes.
>
>   tar -cvzf myfile.tar.gz --exclude=*~ --exclude=.DS_Store mydir
>
> (This command works on Ubuntu -- if it doesn't on a Mac, read the manual.)
>
I went through and cleaned up all the directories; the new archive is
165,029 bytes uploaded. Thanks! I recently switched to developing under
Ubuntu so no reading of the manual was needed :-)

JR
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John Rankin