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From: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configure /dev/rst0 ?
Date: 19 Dec 1995 20:59:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
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Kent Robotii (joe@soho.ios.com) wrote:
: When I try to unzip & untar a tgz file,
: I get a /dev/rst0 not configured.
: How do you configure /dev/rst0.

What options are you using???  Sounds like you aren't using the ``f''
option to specify your tgz file.  If you leave this option off, tar looks
to /dev/rst0.

Try:    tar tfvz my_file.tgz

and see if you don't get the table of contents.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)