On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Isaacson, Scott D. wrote:
> I can gunzip the file, but as far using tar, forget it. The system just
> sits there. The PC seems to recognize the tar command because I can type
> "tar -help" and get the help for using the tar command. I'm definitely a
> newbie at all this so I'm probably missing something rather obvious.
>
tar -xvf file.tar
You need the f, otherwise it will try and read the tar file from its
standard input.
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