Sapcar -cvf & sapcar -xvf

HI All,
1.Can some one please explain what is the diff between sapcar -cvf and sapcar -xvf. It would be better if you can explain the usage with an examle.
2.While installing the oracle, is there any special with sapdata4 directory, I was going through one installation document and there I found some thing special with the sapdata4 directory such that all the extracted files go to this ...
Appriciate your quick reply on my first question.
Thanks & Regards
Rajesh Meda

Not really portal related, but I'll give it a try!
sapcar -xvf extracts files from a .SAR file. sapcar -cvf creates a .SAR file. These are SAP's compressed files. sapcar |help will show you other commands.
You should probably ask in one of the other forums about Oracle installation.

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