Re: Problem with TAR...

Scott Hopwood (shopwood@nospam.staff.cs.su.oz.au)
Tue, 7 Mar 1995 11:02:16 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 7 Mar 1995, James Richard Webster wrote:

> Howdy all,
>
> I am having problems with an archive in the TAR format. I am
> using the following command: tar x <name of archive> (a UQWK processor
> incidentally). I get the error message : Unknown device dev/rmt8 or some
> such... Same error occurs on ftoomsh as well.
>
> Sorry to bother y'all with a rather inane question, but any help will be
> appreciated...
>
> Later,
> James

tar -xf name_of_archive

or

tar -xf - < file

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