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Re: tar question (probably a newbie question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Tue Nov 10 16:28:17 1998
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:20:51 -0000
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tar -xvf TAR.FILE (where TAR.FILE is a valid tape archive)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Daigle <Tim_Daigle@cw.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 1:28 PM
Subject: tar question (probably a newbie question)
>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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