From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 17 09:51:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08622 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08603 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 09:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA22220; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:50:42 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:50:42 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: David Empey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar In-Reply-To: <1F9EF8015A@integral.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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