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From: greg@athena.cs.uga.edu (Greg Whitlock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Extracting files from a tar file
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.023228.8384@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 02:32:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.174511.5658@agate.berkeley.edu>
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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In article <1991Jun20.174511.5658@agate.berkeley.edu> ryee@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Raymond Yee) writes:
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>This should be a simple question (although I can't figure it out.)  I have

...should be....  :-)

>a tar archive file sitting on my disk and I would like to extract the files.
>How do I do it?  I've tried a mix of the x and f key options, but I
>constantly get a tape read error.

Using 'tar xvf <file>' should work.  A tape read error sounds like a 
different problem.

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