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From: brandt@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Erich P Brandt)
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Subject: Extracting .tar files
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In article <1990Feb7.134807.3314@diku.dk> terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder) writes:
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>Your turn: How do I uncompress a .tar file? (With tar I get an error
>telling me that no tape is mounted; I know that!)
>

Type "tar xvf <tar file>" or "tar xf <tar file>".

The "v" means verbose mode, meaning that it tells you what it's doing
as it un-tars your file.

>terra@freja.diku.dk: Morten Welinder

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