From: William T. O Connell (wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com)
Date: 02/07/93 

From: wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell)
Subject: Re: Newbie question
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 22:57:04 GMT

In article <729120368snz@spell.demon.co.uk> spell@spell.demon.co.uk (Martin Glassborow) writes:
>I am having real problems trying to de-TAR stuff. For instance, I downloaded
>the TAR for KA9Q and try to deTAR it after moving it from my DOS partition
>and TAR just looks at me and does nothing.
>
> tar -x KA9QBIN.7.tar
>
>Is this right, or am I missing something?

Try:
        cat KA9QBIN.7.tar | tar -xp

- Bill O'Connell