Re: cannot open tar file.

tony_at_pcunix.com
Date: 02/24/04


Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:04:48 +0000 (UTC)

ron <rsol4747@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Good Da: this will be reaching back for some. I'm a newbie at linux.
>We have a SCO UnixWare 2.1.3. A tar was created (( tar -cvfhn tarball
>/dal )), this is the instruction given to me. I moved over to a redhat
>6.0 box and did a (( tar xvf tarball /dal )). the file opened and
>created a directory /dal and created 2 sub directors /w0,/w1 with full
>data included. I am tryed to move the dirctory /dal to another sco
>computer also running SCO UnixWare 2.1.3. The dirs are from a Intel
>360 box Xenix OS. On the new sco box I have tryed

>tar -xvfnp tarball /dal
>UX:tar INFO: 1 file not extracted

tar xvf tarball

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