Untarring a file problem

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Author: jtannenba
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Subject: Untarring a file problem
Hi,

Don't know if anyone answered you, but the 'f' has
to be the last option, followed by the filename.
It thinks you want to open file 'z' with your cmd.
Joe
--- Clayton Stapleton <> wrote:
> Hi Folks;
> Tried to untar a .tgz file with the following
> results:
>
> clay@linux:~> file ac3d3linuxtrial.tgz
> ac3d3linuxtrial.tgz: gzip compressed data, deflated,
> last modified: Wed
> Oct 11 08:32:32 2000, os: Unix
> clay@linux:~> tar -xvfz ac3d3linuxtrial.tgz
> tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> Using ls on the file resulted in:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 clay     users     1512801 Jan  1
> 09:36 ac3d3linuxtrial.tgz

>
> Any help would be appriciated.
>
> TIA
> Clay Stapleton
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=====
JT and NE Tannenbaum


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