I've just read through my emails today and thank you to all or you for your help re tar archives. Shaun.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:10 PM Subject: Re: tar archives. > hi chuck now I remember hehehe that's what I was doing wrong thinks heaps > man.. > Shaun > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:32 AM > Subject: Re: tar archives. > > > > Hi Shawn - > > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use > > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create", > > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is > > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename > > follows. So what you want is: > > > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz > > > > Hope that helps > > Chuck > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > > > > Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm > receiving. > > > When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must > specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I > used were as follows. > > > tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys. > > > Shaun. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Shaun Oliver > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM > > > Subject: tar archives. > > > > > > > > > Hi guys. > > > I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have > access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files > with a .tar.gz extention. > > > could somebody help me please? > > > thanks in advance Shaun.. > > > > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (86% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
