From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 7 18:41:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14990 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14978 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 18:41:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA17847; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:10:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA03237; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:10:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980308131043.65114@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:10:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: anthony@sohopros.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with a tar file. References: <3.0.32.19980307202548.007b0b50@pop.flash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980307202548.007b0b50@pop.flash.net>; from anthony@sohopros.com on Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 08:25:51PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 March 1998 at 20:25:51 -0600, anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > Can someone tell me how to extract this file. > > communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar > > When I downloaded it was a .gz file, so a ran > gunzip because I thought it would extract the file. > It did make the file a meg or so larger That's right. gunzip uncompresses the file. You didn't really need to do that. > but I need to be able to untar it. I have tried tar -x but it is > trying to copy it to a tape drive. Thanks for your help. Try reading the man page. You need the f option to tell it what to extract. Try: tar xvf communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar If you still had the original file, you'd write: tar xzvf communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz Of course, the easy way to install Netscape is via the port in the Ports Collection. See the online handbook for more details. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message