Without seeing what you tried, one can only guess as to what the problem is.
The most common one is not telling tar that it needs to get its input from a
file; this leaves tar apparently hung because it is looking for input from a
physical tape drive (I think /dev/rmt1 in Linux, but I may be wrong about
that detail).
Anyway, be sure you are executing tar like this:
tar -xvf filename
where:
x = extract
v = use verbose mode (not essential but helpful if
you are having problems
f = use the following file name as your source
You need the full filename, BTW, including the .tar at the end (if there is
one).
If I've guessed wrong, next time show us the line you use to invoke tar.
At 08:29 AM 4/13/99 -0700, Pearl, Dale wrote:
>hey guys , I got I real simple question for the gurus out there . I
>downloaded a gz file off the internet that I want to install on my linux box
>, I can un gzip it just fine then I get a tar file as the uncompressed data
>. I read the man tar page and tried to un tar the data files but the machine
>just sits there at a prompt (and I have waited as long as twenty minutes!)
>... is the data corrupt or am I doing something wrong . the Linux platform
>that I am using is Linux Redhat 5.2 by the way .
>Thanks!
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