How do you unarchive with TAR?

Kenneth Herron kherron at ms.uky.edu
Sat Nov 17 10:23:40 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov16.220430.28688 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon at osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>
>	To un-tar a file, type "tar -xvf <filename>".

On System V, that should be "tar -xovf <filename>" or you'll be in
for a nasty surprise :-)

Kenneth Herron



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