Stuck in TAR

[Sean McMahon]

tar xjf if they're .bz2 tar extentions.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
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)
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