Originally posted by Shiromagius@Jul 18 2002, 06:02 PM
I am no expert, but when I tar stuff I usually do something along the lines of: tar -cvzf <archive name> <what to tar>. So in your case you might go to your working directory and then do "tar -cvzf myfiles.tar.gz *"
Again, I am no expert, and am not sure if that will grab the folders as well, but its worth a try right? 
This is correct....as long as the directory name is in the archive name space, it'll tar everything underneath it
tar -cvpzf <archive name> <what to tar>
i usually add "p" to retain the permissions