Re: how to "untar" a file

[albi]

On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:49:02AM -0500, chris Job wrote:

hi Chris,

> I've downloaded Star Office and I'm trying to load it but having no
> success.  It a tar file and I'm typing tar -xv <filename>.tr, when I then
> press the enter key, nothing happens.  Can someone   tell me what I'm
> doing wrong?

tar -xvf <filename>.tar

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gr o e tjes, Albert.

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