Re: tar bug?

[Roland Huebner]

Felipe M. L. Gasper <address@hidden> wrote:
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> To whom it may concern,

>     I am running tar 1.13 on Slackware 7.1, and whenever I try to run
> "tar -x <archive-name>" on an archive, nothing happens......I hit ENTER, the
> cursor goes to the next line, but then nothing happens. The hard drive does
> not, I believe, activate at any time. I have left this to run overnight, and
> by the morning nothing had happened.
>     Is there something I am doing wrong to cause this behavior, or do you
> have suggestions how I could work around this? I have been extracting
> archives with WinRAR on my Win98 partition, but this doesn't work on the new
> kernel because the kernel files use case-sensitive filenames, whereas
> Win/DOS doesn't distinguish.
>     Thank you.

> Regards,
> -Felipe Gasper

try  `tar -xf <archive-name>'  and have a look at `man tar' or better at
the info-pages.
  Roland