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To: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
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Subject: Re: tar not working 
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 09:18:21 +0000
From: Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen <pvl@nanoteq.com>
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> "Daniel Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> writes:
> > I am having some trouble getting tar to work.
> > if I issue the command "tar t tarfile.tar" I get an error message about
> > /dev/rst0 not being configured.
> 
> Try
> 
> 	tar tf tarfile.tar
> 
> > if I issue the command "tar xzf tarfile.tgz" I get "tar: tarfile.tgz not
> > found in archive". Does anybody know what could be causing this?
> 
> Hmm, I don't know about this one....
> 
> -Dave

The order of the options are important.  Try tar -zxf tarfile.tgz
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Pierre-Andre van Leeuwen
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