From: ak853@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric Blade) Subject: Re: Newbie question Date: 8 Feb 1993 00:04:36 GMT
In a previous article, wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) says:
>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
>
Or maybe: '
tar -xvf KA9QBIN.7.tar'