From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 27 18:22:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA10541 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10536 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA03508; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 18:21:54 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: Dave Marquardt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar not working In-Reply-To: <85pvvg2cnk.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 27 Apr 1997, Dave Marquardt wrote: > "Daniel Keller" 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 > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*