Re: Win95 can do it but Linux can't?

[Adam Alexander <adam tjconline com>]

Actually, that syntax works fine for me.  I don't know about earlier versions
of GNU tar or other tars but with the one that comes with redhat 5.2

tar xfvz <filename>

works great. (try it)  =)

Adam Alexander

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>Matthew Inman wrote:
>> 
>> I thought that might get your attention.
>> 
>>     When I try to uncompress etc. files which I've downloaded in Linux
>> it doesn't work, and I get the same message every time.  For example, if
>> I try
>> 
>> tar xvfz wxftp-0.4.1.src.tar.gz
>
>This, of course, is wrong.  The syntax is to put the letter
>"f" last, indicating that the next argument is a file name.
>Thus:
>
>tar -xvzf wxftp-0.4.1.src.tar.gz
>
>Try it that way.
>
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