Don't bother with any more replies, all you kinkd-hearted managers. I was
flooded with the answer in minutes! Thanks, and thank you also for your
patience and kindness with a first-year UNIX person!
The answer, as stated by Jena-Marc Vincent:
I suppose you did ls and tar -x on Digital UNIX system.
Remember you are not on VMS system. UNIX has no file version.
To extract your tar file you will need to do :
# tar -xovf 'NETSITE.TAR;1'
Filename is NETSITE.TAR;1 and not NETSITE.TAR.
Character ; is command shell separator so you need to quote
complete file name to prevent shell interpretation.
THANKS:
Gyula Szokoly <szgyula_at_skysrv.Pha.Jhu.EDU>
Jean-Marc Vincent <vincent_at_snails.enet.dec.com>
J. Dean Brock <brock_at_cs.unca.edu>
Paul A Sand <pas_at_unh.edu>
Sigismondo Boschi <net1701_at_iperbole.bologna.it>
My question was that a ls -l displayed NETSITE.TAR;1, but I couldn't copy the
file from CD via command line, nor unpack it with tar. Of course, the ";1"
bothered me, but I certainly couldn't have used it in the command line, since
UNIX would look for a command named "1" !
Received on Fri Dec 06 1996 - 19:06:39 NZDT