From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 23 20:29:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02551 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag2p28.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02544 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA04028; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:27:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:27:19 +1100 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: funkycolmedina cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar/tgz In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981123231037.006b6af8@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, funkycolmedina wrote: > Hello again, > > I mounted my A drive where I got my downloaded latest driver from > the ftp to get X running, and this is my delimna. > > in my /mnt directory I copied the file to where I needed it: > > file was x3323s~1.tgz > typed gunzip x3323s~1.tgz Instead of doing gunzip, try tar xfvz . That'll ungzip and untar it at the same time. > got x3323s~1.tar (??) > typed tar -x x3323s~1.tar Or if you just want to untar the tar file, use tar xfv filename if it's not gzipped. Jim : Jim Mock | [jim@phrantic.phear.net] : : Phear Networks | web: http://www.phear.net/ : : A franchise of Triax, Inc. | ----------------------------- : : Web Site Design & Hosting | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve : : Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia | http://www.freebsd.org/ : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message