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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!frmug.fr.net!penelope.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net (Sylvain Nierveze) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A tale of terrible .tar troubles... Date: 1 Jun 1996 14:31:05 +0200 Organization: Penelope Corp. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4opd69$3oh@penelope.frmug.fr.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960526103708.414A-100000@jesus.serv.net> Reply-To: sn@penelope.frmug.fr.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. manpage for tar(1) command says that you can use the -f option to specify the file or device to use instead of the default (/dev/rst0). Therefore, try : - to extract an archive: tar xf myarchive.tar - to create an archive named foo.tar: tar cf foo.tar The GNU version (shipped with FreeBSD) of tar has some enhancements like the -z to gzip/gunzip a .tar.gz file and (un)tarring it on the fly, and -C to specify another destination directory instead of the current dir: tar zxf netscape.tar.gz -C ~/netscape decompresses the archive and untars it in the subdirectory of your login dir. (if the netscape dir exists, of course).