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02-02-2005, 12:49 PM	#1
njschroe Member Registered: Aug 2004 Posts: 104 Rep:	Opening a .tar file Can anyone tell me how to open a .tar file. (I am not talking about a file that ends with .tar.gz). Just plain .tar Thanks,

02-02-2005, 12:56 PM	#2
secesh Senior Member Registered: Sep 2004 Location: Savannah, GA Distribution: Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mythbuntu, ClarkConnect Posts: 1,154 Rep:	tar -xvf file.tar tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 tar -zxvf file.tar.gz --or use a graphical compressed file manager, like file-roller to view contents without extracting

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