RE: tar just stops

["Bill Gilmore" <caddmasters home com>]

Thanks Gary,
I tried -xvf etc... now I get Hmm, doesn't look like a tar file
Whatever that means.  I downloaded the file when I was using netscape under
NT4.  Did the file corrupt?
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Gdm [mailto:gdm cnsp com]
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 1999 11:06 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com; Bill Gilmore
Subject: Re: tar just stops


Hi Bill,

If its a *.tar.gz file try tar -zxvf nameoffile.tar.gz

If its just a *.tar file leave off the 'z',i.e., tar -xvf
name.tar

The main thing is you were missing the '-f' to signal the
next word is the object file.

Gary

Bill Gilmore wrote:
 There are actually 2
> files.  I type in tar -x freampblahblah and press enter.  The cursor goes


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