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From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
To: Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl>
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Subject: Re: Newbie:Tar Help!
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:57:20PM +0200, Enriko Groen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Almonds [mailto:cjalmond@yahoo.com]
> 
> > Trying to uncompress a .tar file downloaded form
> > www.soliddata.com/products/readme.txt named
> > iotest31.tar.  I have tried tar -xv iotest31.tar with
> > my TAPE environment set to the /usr partition
> > (/dev/ad0s2f) I get the error tar: iotest31.tar not
> > found in archive.  Any help would be great on this.
> 
> try
> 
> tar -xvf <filename>
> 
> TAR was made to archive data to tape... It's natural behaviour is to use a
> tapedrive. The '-f' option is to force it to use a file.
> 
> > Also, I need to create many large files.  I remember
> > you could create a file with a specified file size
> > with SunOS.  Does anyone know that command?
> 

you can use dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile bs=1024 count=100



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