On Thursday 27 June 2002 12:21 am, you wrote: > I've been having some problems running tar. I type something like > "tar -x foo.tar" and it just hangs there for a long time. I've tried > using "-x -v" and "-t", but it still hangs indefinitely, doing nothing. > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Matt Dalen try " tar -xvf foo.tar" and if it is a gz or gzip file try "tar -xvzf foo.tar.gz" or what ever the extension is on the file. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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