Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:50:42 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: David Empey <empey@integral.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970817194944.22208A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <1F9EF8015A@integral.on.ca>
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On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, David Empey wrote: > I have been trying to unpack some of the programs from the Ports > Collection, and have hit a problem: When I try to unpack with tar. > I get the following error message: > > can't open rst0 device not configured > > I'm assuming I haven't configured something properly somewhere. Any > help would be appreciated! Thanks. > How do you use it??? /dev/rst0 is the default device to which tar writes tarballs and from which it reads. To unpack some tarball that's not /dev/rst0, use the f flag, like in: tar xf tarball.tar See man tar. > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > David Empey > mailto: empey@integral.on.ca > http://www.integral.on.ca/empey/ > 604-185 Berkshire Drive, London, Ontario, Canada, N6J 3R6 > (519)-474-0296 > Nadav
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