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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Bernard Courtney <bc@bythehand.com>
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Subject: Re: UN Tar
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> HI all,
> 
> Quick question- what is the command to un tar a local file?  eg. I have
> qmail in the /var directory, I want to extract it to the /var directory-
> what is the command?

Try tar xvf filename.tar. If it ends in .gz do tar xvfz filename.tar.gz.