tar -xf majordomo
tar uses a tape drive (/dev/somethingorother) as its standard input. To get
it to unpack a file, you need to use the -f seitch to tell tar it is working
on a file.
At 04:35 PM 8/18/99 -0500, Frank Martini wrote:
>I've got a .tar archive (of MajorDomo of all things) that I just can't
>get untarred on Linux. I can untar it on a PC and on a Mac. When I
>execute tar -x majordomo.....tar it just gives me a line feed and nothing
>happens-- for hours..... what am I doing wrong?
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