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From: yoly@maxwell.Concordia.CA ( Yoly Young  % ILDCD22 % c10112 % 7633)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar from a disk (not tape)
Keywords: tar
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Date: 9 May 89 20:09:33 GMT
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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....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}

You should try:

	cat gugu.tar | tar xvf -

That command lets you restore tar files from a "tar file" :-)