From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 11 09:13:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14933 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 09:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ntserver.sohopros.com (mail.sohopros.com [209.196.67.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA14928 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 09:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anthony@sohopros.com) From: anthony@sohopros.com Received: from fwasc19-180.flash.net by ntserver.sohopros.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1457.7) id 34X98MVK; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:13:44 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:05:01 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Student To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tar problems Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How can I extract this file while it's on my hard drive? kdesupport.src.tar I tried this: #tar -xf /usr/local/kde.tmp/kdesupport.src.tar but nothing happens. I don't know how to tell it that it's not on a tape. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? thanks, ---------------------------------- E-Mail: anthony@sohopros.com Date: 11-Jul-98 Time: 11:05:01 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message