You're not completely crazy - that's what tar did to me too. But MC
worked fine. I dove into the tarball, copied what I needed (a whole
directory) to my /usr/local.
Not sure what the not local means.
And now that the tar error has been independently reproduced, I can
call it a bug. :)
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Ty Mixon
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 1/30/00, 6:25:08 PM, kwf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding [newbie]
Openint tar files:
> I downloaded a file that was "tar.gz" I have no problem getting it
> unzipped.
> But I cannot extract it for anything.
> I can enter:
> tar -x [filename]
> Then I can hit return. Then my cursor returns to the next line and
> won't let me do anything after that. I have to exit the window
> and try again, getting nowhere.
> When I try to do it in "Midnight Commander" it tells me the file
> is not local.
> I cannot find anything about "local" vs "non-local" files.
> Any ideas? What am I an idiot about?
> Alaskan Ken
