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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:33:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "reel@sympatico.ca" <reel@idemnia.ath.cx>
To: Matthew Koivisto <mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: I must be retarted
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Matthew Koivisto wrote:
> When tryin to open a tar file It's sayin can't open device. What's with
> this? Am I just retarted?
>
> # tar -x foo.tgz
> tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured

Just use:

  tar -zxf foo.tgz
or
  gzip -d foo.tgz; tar -xf foo.tar

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