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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
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Subject: Re: How do you unarchive with TAR?
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Date: 16 Nov 90 23:23:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.220430.28688@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
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>	To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>".

On System V, that should be "tar -xovf <filename>" or you'll be in
for a nasty surprise :-)

Kenneth Herron