mike@ut-emx.UUCP (Mike O'Donnell) (03/30/90)
I just received some software that was uueencoded. When I decoded it the resulting file was a tar file. I have tried every combination of tar commands to unload this archive. HELP! Again, it is a uudecoded file residing in one of my subdirectories. Thanks in advance for any help. Mike O'Donnell ut-emx!mike
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (03/30/90)
In article <27185@ut-emx.UUCP>, mike@ut-emx.UUCP (Mike O'Donnell) writes: > I just received some software that was uueencoded. When I decoded > it the resulting file was a tar file. I have tried every combination > of tar commands to unload this archive. HELP! Again, it is > a uudecoded file residing in one of my subdirectories. Thanks in > advance for any help. Sigh.... it's questions like this which make the people who answer the questions silently scream "AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!" to themselves in frustration. Not because the question is unreasonable (it is certainly a reasonable question), but because so little useful information is provided that it's almost impossible to answer it adequately without providing much more information than is required -- we've got to throw *all* of our knowledge about the problem into our answers, since we haven't been given enough information to know what, in particular, the you need to know. For example, what version of Unix are you using? When you say that you "tried every combination of tar commands to unload this archive," what EXACTLY do you mean? What EXACTLY did you type, and how EXACTLY didn't it work? Also, are you sure that the archive wasn't compressed after it was tar'd? Given only the information you have provided, the best I can do is tell you how *I* would go about unpacking a tar archive residing in a file, on a BSD system. I would first cd into the directory into which I want the files to be extracted, and then I would type "tar xvf filename", where "filename" is the name of the tar archive. Moral of the first paragraph above: Please, when you're asking a question, provide enough useful information so that the people who will be answering it won't have to ask you for more. For example, the operating system you are using, what you *wanted* to happen, what you *did* to make it happen, and what *actually* happened instead of what you wanted. Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8495 Home: 617-782-0710