tar

tar

[rick solovan]

I cant untar any files.
I type tar -x file.tar
and then it just does nothing

ie.
START
bash-2.02$tar -x file.tar[ENTER]
[CNTRL+C](it just sits there and does nothing, same with tar -t)
bash-2.02$
END
Somebody told me I must not use winzip to untar these files,TRUE?
What am I doing wrong, please help.
Im running Winnt Server




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Re: tar

[John Fortin]

rick Slovene wrote:
> 
> I cant untar any files.
> I type tar -x file.tar
> and then it just does nothing
> 
> ie.
> START
> bash-2.02$tar -x file.tar[ENTER]
> [CNTRL+C](it just sits there and does nothing, same with tar -t)
> bash-2.02$
> END

try 'tar -xvf foo.tar'

the -xvf tells tar to extract(x), be verbose(v), the following file(f)

John

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tar

[paul van der Meij]

after applying a new 'snapshot' (20000131) I had suddenly a problem
using 'tar' on certain archives
it produced a 'stack dump'


I downloaded tar-1.13 from 'gnu' and generated it with no problems,
however it has (at least) 2 runtime problems:
- it does not recognize 'tar-filenames' with MS convention
'd:/dir/xxx.tar', but maybe many more unix programs will
  not recognize a path that does not start with '/' and is still
'absolute', so '//d/dir/xxx.tar' wiil do. (The old tar did ??)
- it does not work with stdin and stdout, or 'pipe' to or from another
program. I have no idea yet why ??


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