tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

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..
> >
>
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