How to exclude a dir. with tar

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On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:49, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball.
>
> What a horrible answer!

There is nothing horrible about my answer.  It did not tell 
him what he wanted to know about excluding but it did tell 
him how to accomplish his objective, because he does not 
want to save that tmp directory anyway.