From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 17:45: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C29158FD for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19782; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:42:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 19:42:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Christopher Palmer To: Pippins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't use the tar file In-Reply-To: <000d01be8155$ffd36580$6c8e15d0@pippins> 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, 7 Apr 1999, Pippins wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD. I downloaded a window manager from the internet. >It came in the form of a tar file. When I try "tar -x 'the file' " it > says "can't open ` `device not configured /dev/rsa0. Check out the tar(1) man page. You need to add the '-f' option as well. Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message