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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)
> >
> >
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