tar xjf if they're .bz2 tar extentions. ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:19 PM Subject: Stuck in TAR > Read the "man tar" and message Janina sent me with examples. Did, > "tar //media/cdrom/*.*" > Was informed that it couldn't find the "tar" file in first file, furthermore, that the file was using "obsolescent base-64 headers" which I always thought had to do > with mime encoding, and subsequently told me it couldn't find the "tar" files ineach of the other files. Thing is, these same files yielded their contents as "html" > files using "rar" on my Windows machine, but I'd really rather them be in "/usr/lib" where alot of ".doc" files seem to live in sub-directories having used the > "locate" command as learned from other postings, to see where document files lived on the system... Figured if "tar could extract, the files would be plopped in > "/usr/lib" where I was sitting when I ran the command. > > Nick (the rather stuck rabbit) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
