According to Jeff Higgins: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi everyone,
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> This is my first post here, so be gentle. I'm INCREDIBLY hopeless when it
> comes to Linux (hopefully not for long :). I'm running Redhat 5.0 under a
> P200MMX with 96MB RAM.
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> Here's the problem: I downloaded a program called "X-ISP". It came in .tar
> format. When I used the command "tar" with the "-x" or "--extract"
> settings, it just sat there. This is what I was typing:
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> tar --extract xisp_5p9_tar.tar
tar xzf xisp_5p9_tar.tar no output to screen,
tar xvzf xisp_5p9_tar.tar output to screen,
Futher details.
'man tar' or 'info tar'
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> After I typed this, it just sat there. Nothing happened. I ended up
> ctrl-c'ing it so I could do something again. I tried this multiple
> times, to no avail. So... any idea what's going on? Better question:
> What am >I< doing wrong? Are there any alternitaves to "tar"?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Jeff Higgins
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> "Randomness is a useful shorthand
> for describing a pattern that's bigger
> than anything we can hold in our minds."
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Regards Richard.
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