Re: CF: tar problems with Linux 6.1?

[Pallav Nawani <>]

On Sat, 27 May 2000, Sean McInerney wrote:


> I just installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 today and am setting up the crossfire 
> files.  I maged to ung-zip it with gunzip -d (file).gz
> This created the .tar files, now I am trying to untar them using tar -x 
> (file).tar but it just seems to hang on me.  Does anyone know what I might 
> be doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean

use -f option to specify that you want to use a disk file.The
default source is the tape device,which in your case will be null.
$ tar -xf file.tar

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