I am running a dual boot system using Red Hat 8.0 and Windows 95.
W95 is for my internet browsing, and, obviously, I need to download files for my Linux system as well.
The problem I am encountering is that some HOWTO documents that I downloaded to my W95 partition, and then transferred to a shared partition, will not unarchive. They will unzip (w/ <gzip>
, but when I use tar, i.e.:
tar -xvzf /shared_partition_directory/tar_file
a list of the archived files is printed to stdout, but nothing in written to the directory. The tarred file is still there but the untarred files are not. Am I missing something in the usage of tar? Is there something about the dual boot system which is preventing tar from working? Is there another unarchiving tool on the Red Hat 8.0 distribution that I should try instead of the <tar> command?
Thanks,
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