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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Post-installation Housekeeping Error
Date: 18 Jul 1996 16:09:44 +0100
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Ngocquynh (ngocquynh@aol.com) wrote:
: Pleae help me! I was following the instructions on page 59 of the
: installing and
: running BSD manual (by Greg Lehey) to create a symbolic link /var to point
: to /usr/var. When I issued the command
: tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ),
: I got the error message "tar: unknown option. Use `tar --help' for a
: complete
Try typing it again. You may have actually ended up typing
tar x^Hcf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ),
or the like.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....