i want to encript and pack my directory is it possible to pack it and open it with a password? ronen

man tar man gzip If it is, it will be in the manpages.

i did that already, no answers there...

Well I doubt it's possible then.

You may know this, but while tar and gzip (and bzip2) do not seem to support password encryption, the old reliable 'zip' does. You can encrypt a password with it using the argument -e, as in: zip -e archivename filetobezipped It will prompt you (twice, for typo protection, grin) for a password. then just unzip archivename.zip and it will ask for a password. For tar, all i do is tar my files first, as in tar cfv tarballname file file file etc. and the zip the tarball with the -e switch. I apologize if you knew this, and wanted to find a way to do it with the OTHER archivers. I wish bzip2 and gzip and tar had that feature, too. I also will the other zip utilities had the -L argument to remove some upper case letters when unzipping dos archives, just as a p.s.