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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] Untar of File

> The next argument after the 'f' option in a tar command has to be the
file
> name.  If you want to pull a particular file out of the tar, its name
would be
> the next argument after that (but it has to be in the same format that
you
> see after 'tar tf filename'.

Dear Angelyn,

Check if the file is a tar archive by using
# file libiconv

Sinice normally tar files have a .tar archive or a .tgz or gz archive.
If it is also gunzipped then you may need to use
# tar xzvf libiconv

Thanks and Regards
Keith Fernandez

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