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Subject: Re: tarballs, etc.
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At 17:54 2001/12/23 -0500, Dave Kaufman wrote:
>ok, how do i uncompress a tarball? when i use tar -x.... i get a message
>about not being able to initialize the device sa0. i presume it's looking for
>a tape drive. per the help, if i try to filter through bzip2 or unbzip2 or
>ungzip i get the same thing. i'm sure this is very simple but i'm not finding
>it.
>
>have two files i want to undo. one is .tar.bz2 the other is a .tar.gz.


I have a page on this for Linux newbies folks, but should work for FreeBSD 
as well
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertajutsu/tarball.html

(Remember it's for Linux, so ignore the rpm stuf)

HTH
Scott


>all help is much appreciated.
>
>and happy holidays to all who are celebrating at this time of year.
>Dave
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