From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 18: 0:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D23515919 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24537; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:57:08 +1200 (NZST) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:57:08 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen 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. > `man tar' is your friend. The online manual pages should *always* be your first stop for any problems you have. freebsd-question is where you ask _after_ you read the man-pages. "tar xf 'the file'" is the solution to your problem. -- Jonathan Chen Once is dumb luck. Twice is coincidence. Three times and Somebody Is Trying To Tell You Something. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message