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From: pa1@tdatirv.UUCP (Pat Alvarado)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Elvis
Message-ID: <61@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 90 15:04:48 GMT
References: <29500@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: pa1@tdatirv.UUCP (Pat Alvarado)
Organization: Teradata Corp., El Segundo, Ca.
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In article <29500@boulder.Colorado.EDU> ornstein@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jason Ornstein) writes:
>Ok, was just wondering since there was no documentation with this
>program, elvis, how do you set up the temp file.  Every time I run
>this it dies saying it can't find the temp file....help...
>

Similar to Unix filesystems Elvis appears to be looking for a /tmp
directory, so for MSDOS do:

md \tmp 

and the problem goes away.

>Also, was wondering if anyone can help with another question, hope its
>not a frequently asked on...but if I get a file and it has a .tar
>ending and I don't have access to a tape drive does this mean that I
>can't use it?  This would be on a unix machine so this might be the
>wrong place to ask..

On a Unix system, the tar program can extract from a file. The tape
drive is just considered another file to Unix (e.g. /dev/rt0). Anyway,
to look at the contents use:

tar tf <filename>

The 't' says "table of contents", 'f' says use the following argument
as the tar file.
To actually extract the files from the tar file:

tar xvf <filename>

The 'x' says extract, 'v' says verbose (displays the filename of each file
being extracted).


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