Re: 2 nd CHIP CD

["Lister Vaz" <lowenv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks worked like a charm previously i had used gunzip and then tar
should have known better
but the best part is i still cannot get my games to work eg. the ones
without the .rpm extention
like lincity..here i get a scrambled coluured screen and not smooth picture
...cannot tell what is what 
freeciv says no player is logged on even after i had created 4 players
CAN YOU HELP ???????

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> From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: 2 nd CHIP CD
> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:20 AM
> 
> Methinks the "-xzvf" should not have a "-" before it, and that you need
to
> give a target for extraction, as you cannot extract onto the CD (as Ashok
> has pointed out).
> 
> Hence "tar xzvf abc.tar.gz -C /tmp" is the right way if you want to
extract
> into /tmp (charge to whatever directory you want, and note that it is
> capital C in -C).
> 
> To list the contents of the file, you can just use "tar tzvf abc.tar.gz"
> since that does not require extraction.
> 
> Atul
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom@xxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of V S Ashoka
> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:51 AM
> > To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: 2 nd CHIP CD
> >
> >
> > > load TAR files with tar -xvzf file.tar an error message comes
> > on says that
> > 	it is trying to write onto  the tar file itself (tar always does).
> > you can't write on the CD. So give options to write it on hard disk or
> > copy the tar file and remember to change the permissions.
> > Ashok
> >
> >
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