From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 5 12:14:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.198.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF0537B55E for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 12:14:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from newman.concentric.net (newman.concentric.net [207.155.198.71]) by darius.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id PAA26476; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:14:10 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts002d27.mer-id.concentric.net (ts002d27.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.87]) by newman.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id PAA05671; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:14:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:11:42 -0600 (MDT) From: ML Duke To: "Dimitrios T." Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "tar t" won't do it :~( In-Reply-To: <20000605104757.25545.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Try: tar -t /dev/rsa0 if rsa0 is your default and tar -tf /dev/rsa0 if it is not. ML Duke On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Dimitrios T. wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps i'm just being a newbie when trying to use a simple tar > option all I do is generate an error message :~( > > I want to get a listing of the contents of tar-ed file. > I try the following: > # tar t blah.tar > > But all I get is: > tar: can't open /dev/rsa0 : Device not configured > > I understand that it tries to find a tape device or something (it > was originaly destined for tape-archiving, after all) but why? > All I'm asking is a table of contents on my monitor.. > > Can anyone help me out, here? > thanks, > Dimitri > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message