From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: Clue? Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:46:42 GMT
In article <1992Sep3.003401.15081@m.cs.uiuc.edu> najem@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem) writes:
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>or if the archive is still compressed and you're using GNU tar, use:
>
> $ tar -xzvf /dev/fd0H1440
>
>Also, since linux now has autodetecting disk type, you can simply use:
>
> $ tar -xzvf /def/fd0
And if you ARE NOT using GNU tar (as many of us now use the "pax" version),
you have to use zcat and pipe the output to tar without the "z" option.
Doesn't everybody just love trying to answer these questions when we have
more than one version of a program? :-)
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson * ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"