If you wish to tar a file via telnet, you can do so using the following command. At the telnet prompt, type the following (if you are in the
/vs?/vs?/username/www/logs directory, and you are tarring the access_log file):
tar -czvpf newtarball.tgz access_log
This is a brief explanation of what the commands does:
The command is tar, then the flags to ensure proper configurations, then the new file you wish to be created, then the file that you wish to have compressed.
