Tom Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving
> personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a
> zip disk.
>
> Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it
> won't untar.
>
> tar xvf mail.tar puts me right back to a prompt with it still listed as
> mail.tar. No error messages no nothing. Just the mail.tar file staring
> mockingly at me.
What is the output of:
$ file mail.tar
$ ls -l mail.tar
Kurt
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"One, two, five."
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