From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 23 14:54:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lima.epix.net (lima.epix.net [199.224.64.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC1037B417 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (clsm-58ppp25.epix.net [209.74.58.25]) by lima.epix.net (8.12.1/2001112001/PL) with SMTP id fBNMsj7h026162 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:54:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Dave Kaufman Reply-To: daverk@epix.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tarballs, etc. Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 17:54:44 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. all help is much appreciated. and happy holidays to all who are celebrating at this time of year. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message