UNIX OT: exclude files in tar

Hello,

On Solaris 8

I can't seem to get the tar command right. I wanted to tar a directory but EXCLUDE one of the subdirectory in it.
Example:
/home/user01
/home/user01/mark01
/home/user01/mark01/ask.txt
/home/user01/mark01/ghost.txt
/home/user01/mark02
/home/user01/mark02/ask.txt
/home/user01/mark02/ghost.txt
/home/user01/mark03
/home/user01/mark03/ask.txt
/home/user01/mark03/ghost.txt

I wanted to tar everything except /home/user01/mark03/* man pages on tar says there is an option to exclude files but I just can't get it to work for me.

Can someone show me how to do this right?

Thanks,
Ross

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