On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Jonathan Lyons wrote:

> Ok, everythings in good and working order. No problems with read only, no
> problems with vipw, and finally no problems with the network daemons. All
> of these problems were solved simply by reinstalling the system.
> 
> Now there is one more problem:
> 
> When I try to untar a file(I do tar -x <filename> or tar -x /etc/rc
> <filename>) it says:
> 
> tar:can't open /dev/rst0:no such file or directory

tar, being short for tape archive, was designed to read/write data from/to
a streaming tape drive.  In order to force reading from a file, it is
necessary to specify the f flag, i.e. tar -xf filename.

> Then of course, the file, namely the man12 archive(of which I changed the
> name to man12.tar.gz after having the same problem with the first name),
> doesn't untar and leaves me frustrated. How can I solve this?

tar -xf man12.tar.gz --ungzip

Later,

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