ROADEF'2005: FAQ

History of the modifications of this FAQ

28/07/03: creation
10/10/03: several questions have been asked by some candidates, you can find here a list of answers up to this date.
12/10/03: list of answers updated.
16/11/03: list of answers updated (more answers)
27/11/03: list of answers updated (more informations on the checkers and on the data set A)
17/02/04: list of answers updated (more details on the submission procedure and on the evaluation of the qualification stage, more answers to various questions)
18/02/04: list of answers updated (detail on the computing time)
15/07/04: list of answers updated (max. number of vehicles at the denominator of the ratios)

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To uncompress .tar.gz or .tgz files:
zcat toto.tgz | tar xvf -
To uncompress .zip files:
unzip toto.zip
And if I want to compress the foo directory ?
Get yourself into the parent directory of foo, then
tar cvf - toto | gzip > toto.tgz or if your want to include the date in the name of the archive file :
tar cvf - toto | gzip > toto-`date +%y%m%d_%Hh%M`.tgz