unarchiving tar archives (was: .1 archive format?)

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From: Andy Toy
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 14:06

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In article <1990Feb7.134807.3314@diku.dk> terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder) writes:
>Your turn: How do I uncompress a .tar file? (With tar I get an error
>telling me that no tape is mounted; I know that!)

Tar uses the default device (usually a tape) if the `f' option is not
specified.  Use ``tar xf file.tar'' to extract all the files in the
archive file.tar or you can specify the names of the files that you want
after the archive name on the command line.  Use ``tar xvf file.tar'' if
you want verbose output.
-- 
Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc.,       Internet: andy@mks.com
  35 King Street North, Waterloo,       UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy
      Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9      Phone: 519/884-2270  FAX: 519/884-8861

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: unarchiving tar archives (was: .1 archive format?)
Keywords: simtel20
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.140635.16013@mks.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 14:06:35 GMT
References: <2865@isis.UUCP> <511169@nstar.UUCP> <1990Feb6.185751.14120@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb7.134807.3314@diku.dk>
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