Un packing a ".tar" archive

[lexscripta]

I see there is a way to extract a compressed archive, but what about just a .tar archicve, i.e., instead of filename.tar.gz, I want to unpack filename.tar.

I also tried to compress the filename.tar to a filename.tar.gz, and then used the option in DA to uncompress, but all it did was give me back the original filename.tar file.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks to anyone that cares to answer...

Mark

 

[Pate]

To unpack a .tar file, use:

 tar -xvf yourfile.tar

       -x, --extract, --get
	      extract files from an archive

       -v, --verbose
	      verbosely list files processed

       -f, --file [HOSTNAME:]F
	      use archive file or device F (default /dev/rmt0)