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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:19:55 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Installing a distribution
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.31.0111021118490.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <00f701c16389$a744fc30$0a00000a@atkielski.com>

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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

> How do I unpack and install a distribution made available in tar.gz format?
> (The one in question is a binary distribution of Apache, from their site.)  I
> uncompressed it with gzip with no problem, but "tar -xf file" complains about
> /dev/sa0 not being available.  How is this supposed to work?

Don't use a leading "-". FreeBSD's tar understands gzipping, too, so you
can just use
	tar zxf apache*.tar.gz


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