[IRCServices] Services 4.5pre1 released

Real RealCFC at ChatFIRST.COM
Thu Feb 1 18:20:25 PST 2001


Thanks it worked indeed, what's the big difference between -rvf  and -xvf  ?
Thanks for your help , I know I might get bombarded for asking questions
regarding to Unix and not services here but I don't have many places where
to ask lol.
Ely

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Kelly" <smkelly at zombie.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Services 4.5pre1 released


> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:08:21PM -0800, [Real] wrote:
> > For some reason the file wont decompress I type:
> >
> > tar -rvf ircservices-4.5pre1.tar
> >
> > but nothing happens any ideas ?
>
> Hmm..........
>
> Have you tried
>
> tar -xvf ircservices-4.5pre1.tar
>
> That seems to work here.  Something about -r being sued for appending
files
> to tar archives seems funny to me, but maybe your tar is jsut broken.
>
> (HINT: RTFM, LART needed.)
>
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