From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 1: 9:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.crackula.com (adsl-64-169-68-38.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.68.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F6837B416 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by mail.crackula.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA14099; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:03:38 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: arvids Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to configure tar? Message-ID: <20020627010338.A1933@crackula.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: MarioMail Super Nintendo w/ 2 controllers In-Reply-To: ; from arvids@blezurs.lv on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:49:00AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG arvids took 0.5K on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:49:00AM +0300 to say: > I cannot open the archive > I do: > tar -x backup.tar.gz tar -xfz backup.tar.gz the "f" says "the word that comes next is the file to work with", and the "z" says "use gunzip" > I tried also gunzip backup.tar.gz > but then it comes back with an error the error message itself would be more helpful. -Adam -- "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." -Lilo Adam Weinberger monkey@crackula.com http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message