RE: zipper troubles

[Peter Iannarelli <peter@pisys.com>]

Seth:

You got to invest in a manual big guy or at least learn how to access the online
manuals, try "man tar"

tar = tape archiver
-xvf = extract verbosely from [file name]

Because UNIX is a file oriented OS you can tar from or to almost anything


regards

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From:  Seth Reinosa[SMTP:seth@eznet.net]
Sent:  Thursday, February 27, 1997 11:26 AM
To:  debian linux questions
Subject:  zipper troubles


Ok what does this mean? 

<seth@eznet.net>
<http://home.eznet.net/~seth>
Thanx
and may God Bless you
Seth R



shell1:~> tar -xvf guavac-0.2.5-linuxelf-bin.tar
usr/local/bin/guavac
usr/local/bin/guavad
usr/local/share/guavac/classes.zip
usr/local/man/man1/guavac.1
shell1:~> tar -xvf guavac-0.2.5-linuxelf-bin.tar
usr/local/bin/guavac
usr/local/bin/guavad
usr/local/share/guavac/classes.zip
usr/local/man/man1/guavac.1q