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RE: tar question (probably a newbie question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Tue Nov 10 08:49:52 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:49:07 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Tim Daigle <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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two things
a capital Z usually means it was compressed with the command "compress", and
should be uncompressed with "uncompress"
Then use
tar xf prog.tar
or tarxvf prog.tar to see the files as they untar
hth
charles
===== Original Message from Tim Daigle <redhat-list@redhat.com> at 11/10/98
8:45 am
>This is probably a stupid newbie question but.... I downloaded a program
>that was in the form of program.tar.Z. I unziped the ZIP part now I'm
>left with program.tar when I do a "tar -x program.tar" nothing happens the
>curser just sits there blinking at me until I hit ctrl-c to stop it. Am I
>doing this the wrong way or something? I read the tar man page and
>everything seems pretty strait forward so I'm not sure what is happening?
>
>
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