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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A tale of terrible .tar troubles... Date: 2 Jun 1996 04:47:15 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4or6cj$9ta@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960526103708.414A-100000@jesus.serv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960526103708.414A-100000@jesus.serv.net>, jimbo <root@jesus.serv.net> wrote: > Ok, I'm new at all this...just got my X-Windows and PPP running, and was > looking forward to installing some software that's not in package format > (i.e. Netscape), and it gunzips just fine, but whenever I try to do a tar > -x command, it throws this at me: > tar: can't open /dev/rst0: Device not configured. > I can't find any mention of this device in any documentation, although I > did find the device itself in the /dev directory. Your difficulty is with the tar command, not any device. Tar is a Tape-ARchiver so it defaults to a tape drive instead of a file. Since you do not have a tape drive it is not configured. To extract from a file or from a device other than the default one you must use the "f" flag: tar xf file.tar -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/