On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Thomas Dell wrote:

> I believe the best combination of arguments to use for tar is -xvf
> (meaning extract and verify the following file)

I think the problems were stemming from the tarfile being compressed - if
you want to extract a compressed tar file:

tar zxvf tarfile.tgz 

-art


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