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[liquidox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nicholas)]

Rusty wrote:

> Hi!
>
> The other day I downloaded a driver from oss for my soundcard.  I used
> the command gunzip oss* | tar xvh.  All I got was the oss*.tar file.
> When I tried to untar this file with the command tar xvh oss* and hit
> enter the cursor moved one line down and sat there blinking at me.

Use xpvf oss*
x - extract
p - permissions
v - verbose
f - file name (this is what you've missed, it needs the 'f' option to
    declare the file name else it waits for standard input ;-)


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