From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ravi Uday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:02:41 +0530 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Message-ID: <1104986246.194801@sj-nntpcache-3> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104986031 15264 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 04:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 05:33:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmPLD-0006Rm-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:33:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPWT-0005Mc-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:45:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-3!unknown@dhcp-10-77-22-219.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23168 Kevin M Evart wrote: > I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and others). > I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP does not open > these achieves. Could you please provide me with a means of extracting > these types of files. > Not sure how you do untarring in windows ( with cygwin installed you could try) But on *nix* machines you can try tar -xvf - Ravi > Thank you > > >