Sorry about that, I forgot the f option in my post, Geoff is correct here. Greg On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 07:30:51AM +1000, gshang at uq.net.au wrote: > > > I then went to the directory and tried tar -x filename and heard > >nothing. Only control-z or was it -c worked to get me back to the prompt. > > You almost got it. You want: > > tar -xf filename > > Note that many tar files are gzipped as well (i.e. they're tar.gz files), > so you would need > > tar -zxf filename > > for these. Also note that most tar files have their own subdir in them so > they'll unpack underneath where you are. > > Geoff. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
