You don't say what you are trying on the command line when you run tar. To
get tar to untar a file, you need to provide some switches. One string that
will work is:
tar -xvf filename
where
x = extract
v = verbose mode (so it tells you what it's doing)
f = use the filename that follows as the tar archive
filename = the file you want to untar
Similarly, to create a tar file, you type
tar -cvf filename other_filenames
where
c = create a tar file
other_filenames = the files you want to put into the tar archive
At 04:22 PM 1/5/99 -0500, Isaacson, Scott D. wrote:
>I'm having a problem in RH 5.2 with tar. If I try to open a file I download
>from the net the shell just sits there. It seems like nothing is happening.
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