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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Clue?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.234642.8755@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <MedHI8O00WBLM7_V8v@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep3.003401.15081@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:46:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.003401.15081@m.cs.uiuc.edu> najem@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem) writes:
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- [ A bunch of stuff deleted.]
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- >or if the archive is still compressed and you're using GNU tar, use:
- >
- > $ tar -xzvf /dev/fd0H1440
- >
- >Also, since linux now has autodetecting disk type, you can simply use:
- >
- > $ tar -xzvf /def/fd0
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- And if you ARE NOT using GNU tar (as many of us now use the "pax" version),
- you have to use zcat and pipe the output to tar without the "z" option.
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- Doesn't everybody just love trying to answer these questions when we have
- more than one version of a program? :-)
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- Jim H.
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