Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:21:54 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar not working Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970427182046.3169B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <85pvvg2cnk.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
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On 27 Apr 1997, Dave Marquardt wrote:
> "Daniel Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> writes:
> > I am having some trouble getting tar to work.
> > if I issue the command "tar t tarfile.tar" I get an error message about
> > /dev/rst0 not being configured.
>
> Try
>
> tar tf tarfile.tar
>
> > if I issue the command "tar xzf tarfile.tgz" I get "tar: tarfile.tgz not
> > found in archive". Does anybody know what could be causing this?
>
> Hmm, I don't know about this one....
I always had to do tar xvf blah.
^
Also, that's a .tgz. You might have to do something like
gzip -d tarfile.tgz
tar xvf tarfile.tar
>
> -Dave
>
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