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From: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>
To: 'arvids' <arvids@blezurs.lv>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: re: how to configure/unzip tar?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:21:52 -0400
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arvids [mailto:arvids@blezurs.lv] wrote:

> Thank you but there still is a problem:
> 
> I did
> tar -xvfz backup.tar.gz
> and it gave me following:
> "can't open z : Nu such file or directory" It seems that 
> system doesn't
> recognize z as an option but as a filename

The order in which you put the options is probably important -- tar is a
very old utility, and most of the current standards regarding parameters
weren't extant when it was first written, so it has some weird compatability
modes.

Try:
	tar -xzvf backup.tar.gz

HTH,
Ricky

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