Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38D39A9C.B83E5E26@attglobal.net> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 10:02:52 -0500 From: John Fortin X-Sender: "John Fortin" <@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-gatewaynet (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: Re: tar References: <20000318145831.60822.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rick Slovene wrote: > > I cant untar any files. > I type tar -x file.tar > and then it just does nothing > > ie. > START > bash-2.02$tar -x file.tar[ENTER] > [CNTRL+C](it just sits there and does nothing, same with tar -t) > bash-2.02$ > END try 'tar -xvf foo.tar' the -xvf tells tar to extract(x), be verbose(v), the following file(f) John -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com