Re: cannot open tar file.

tony_at_pcunix.com
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:10:54 +0000 (UTC)

ron <rsol4747@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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

What errors?

When you do tar xvf tarball /dal
you are telling tar to find "/da1". Since you just want everything on the tape, you just use tar xvf tarball, which will extract everything. 

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