From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 14:33:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02561 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:33:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02488 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29126; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Justin Muir cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another question... (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 May 1998, Justin Muir wrote: > OK. This might seem to be a newbie question...and it is. I was > recently trying to un-tar a file and when I ran tar it insisted that : > > ' cannot open rst0 /dev/rst0/ not configured ' Left off the f argument. tar defaults to the SCSI tape device unless you specify an input file. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message