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[icarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Rogier Maas)]

You're right, I was looking on an RHS box. I wonder why SuSE didn't
include it? Tar is never out of date.

Rogier

A Nourai wrote:
> 
> there is no man page for tar included in suse (its uniantained and old and
> out of date??).
> 
> I think we've been through this.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rogier Maas" <icarus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "david" <metafakx@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "SuSE Linux" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Tar!
> 
> > Isn't anybody aware of the tar manpages?
> >
> > man tar
> >
> > gives you everything you need.
> >
> > Rogier
> >
> > david wrote:
> > >
> > > * Rusty <irisinc@xxxxxxx>:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > perhaps you meant f instead of h:
> > >
> > >    tar xvf oss*
> > >
> > > also, you could have decompressed it with tar (with z).
> > >
> > > > What gives with SuSE?  Is ther some secret?  Information in the 6.3
> > > > manual is nonexistant.
> > >
> > > here are the keys you seek:
> > >
> > > tar --help | less
> > > info tar
> > >
> > >   (david)
> 


-- 
Groetjes van Rogier

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