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> Jim Darrough wrote:
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> > Greetings:
> >
> > What is a good program that will allow me to use my Soundblaster Pro
> > with my TS-930 for rtty? Under Linux, of course. Anyone got an idea or
> > two? Needs to be pretty easy to config though, as I am new to Linux.
> >
> > 73 de Jim, KI7AY
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> I want to thank Tom Sailer for the software he steered me towards, but I am
> having trouble un-tar-ing it. The software is named "hf_tar.tar" and when I
> try to un-tar it, I get errors like it's not really a tar file. I use tar
> -xzvf blah.tar as a command. Is there something I am missing? I tried using
^^^^^^----> should be tar xvf filename.tar.
Hi Jim,
If the file you have there is "filename.tar" then drop the 'z' from the
tar switch. The 'z' invokes the gzip, which this file doesn't have. If the
file were filename.tgz or filename.tar.gz, then your syntax is proper..
tar xvfz filename.tar.gz (or tgz, or tar.Z). Hope this helps.
--73, Ronnie, w0plw
mht@npl.co.uk