[oclug] Curios tar problem

[Collin McCrank]

Thanks, that did the trick.  I thought I lost all of our web page and ftp
information.  I owe you a beer or something at the next meeting if I can make
it.

-Collin

"David F. Skoll" wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Collin McCrank wrote:
>
> > Here is the command I gave   tar xvf /dev/tape /temp
>
> Well, that won't work.  Any remaining arguments to "tar" list the files to
> extract, not the directory in which to put them.
>
> What you want to do is:
>
>         cd /temp; tar xvf /dev/tape
>
> --
> David.
>
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