On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Krings wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Some time ago I downloaded SO 5.1 and tried to unpack it, after this
> didn't work i guessed it got broken while resuming the download. So i went
> through downloading again, and this time i did it directly under Linux. The
> result is the same. The strange thing is, that the KDE program arc says it
> is an unknown tar-archive. So I used the prompt to do it by hand with tar.
> tar then starts and does basically nothing, no unpacking, no error message,
> no activity at all. I redirected the output to a file (as it was multiple
> times explained on this list here) and after waiting about ten minutes i
> cancled tar. Neither on the screen nor in the file was anything that could
> give me a hint of what it would be.
>
Sounds to me like you forgot the -f option to tar.
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Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.
