Rusty
I used the command gunzip oss* | tar xvh. All I got was the oss*.tar file.
Of course. You used `gunzip oss*' while you meant `gunzip < oss*' (presuming here that `oss*' expands to a single 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.
If you used `tar xvh' for this, which expects the archive on standard input, it is only normal that it waits for, euh, standard input. You need to pipe the archive into `tar' for this to work. Most people use `f' to announce the archive file.
I have used tar with other linux distributions and with Free BSD and the above command works.
No, it did not. Please report your facts carefully. Most probably, you did not use the commands as stated, and you did not use them identically on both systems.
What gives with SuSE? Is ther some secret?
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