Re: cannot open tar file.

From: ron (rsol4747_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: 25 Feb 2004 13:13:47 -0800

tony@pcunix.com wrote in message news:<c1g78g$j68$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> 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

$tar xvf tarball /dal
$UX:tar: INFO: 1 file not extracted

$tar xvf tarball
$

Tryed these two forms the errors are noted. Help :-0