> 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.
Read the man page: ``man tar''.
In summary though: you're specifying the arguments incorrectly. The
filename needs to be preceeded by the `f' parameter, and there are
other parameters available depending on whether you want to extract the
files with original (as stored) permissions --`p'--, or if you want to
see the names of the files as they are being extracted --`v'-- and so
on.
Try: ``tar xvf <name of archive>''.
mg's digression for the day.
-- Matthew Gream, m.gream@nospam.uts.edu.au matthewg@nospam.jtec.com.au