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 ---------- From: Seth Reinosa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 1997 11:26 AM To: debian linux questions Subject: zipper troubles Ok what does this mean? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <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
