Are you sure this is a .tar file and not a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2? The reason I ask is because YASR is a source distribution, and such files are usually packed as something-x.xx.tar.gz or something-x.xx.tar.bz2, where something is the name of the application and x.xx is the version number. If it's just a tar file without the gz or bz2, you can simply use tar to unpack it with the command you found. If it's tar.gz, you will need to use xzvf instead of xvf, and if it's tar.bz2, you will need to use xjvf instead of xvf. Either way, the YASR source code will be unpacked in a folder called yasr-0.6.9/ under the folder you are in when you unpack it. At that point, you can do cd yasr-0.6.9 ./configure make make install and if you have all the proper packages to compile source code, everything should work properly after editing the config file. Sorry, I don't know what packages come with MacOS for building source code, so you may end up needing to try to find a precompiled binary if it exists. HTH, Kyle -- Jesus you're my life. I live only to serve You Each and every day. --Kyle
