Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 18:07:03 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: daverk@epix.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tarballs, etc. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011223180550.00c1bec8@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200112232254.fBNMsj7h026162@lima.epix.net>
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At 17:54 2001/12/23 -0500, Dave Kaufman wrote: >ok, how do i uncompress a tarball? when i use tar -x.... i get a message >about not being able to initialize the device sa0. i presume it's looking for >a tape drive. per the help, if i try to filter through bzip2 or unbzip2 or >ungzip i get the same thing. i'm sure this is very simple but i'm not finding >it. > >have two files i want to undo. one is .tar.bz2 the other is a .tar.gz. I have a page on this for Linux newbies folks, but should work for FreeBSD as well http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertajutsu/tarball.html (Remember it's for Linux, so ignore the rpm stuf) HTH Scott >all help is much appreciated. > >and happy holidays to all who are celebrating at this time of year. >Dave > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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