Re: mmmghmghhfnfgfRe: CF: tar problems with Linux 6.1?

	Hey, it will be great to see some NorthWest Action.  I am in the
Portland, OR area (not much time to play, tho).

-Kris

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Sean McInerney wrote:

> Thanks guys, I managed to get it working using the -xvf flag.
> Not overly intuitive, to me at least.
> If anyone in my neck of the woods is up to playing some CF with me, my ICQ 
> is 4012433 give me a shout.  I live in Vancouver (extreme west Canada) on a 
> high speed ADSL line and will be running a server.
> 
> Later,
> Sean
> 
> 
> >From: Pallav Nawani <>
> >To: Sean McInerney <>
> >CC: 
> >Subject: Re: CF: tar problems with Linux 6.1?
> >Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 09:36:51 +0530 (IST)
> >
> >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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