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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles;X2568;61-215)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar from a disk (not tape)
Keywords: tar
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Date: 7 May 89 02:21:44 GMT
References: <1517@cmx.npac.syr.edu>
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In article <1517@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
 >i have in my directory a file named  gugu.tar  which i assume is
 >a tarfile.

 >now, what i would like to do is restore it unto my directory

 >in my feeble attemp to do so i tried:
 >        tar x gugu.tar
 >to which i was wipped with the response:
 >        "yo, no tape on line" {translated a bit}
 >

Try this:  tar xf gugu.tar

The f option specifies the file/device to get extract to/from.

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc.
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