Untarring a file problem

[jtannenba]

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 <vernon@impulsedata.net> 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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