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From: levinb@cortez.its.rpi.edu (charcoal grey)
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Subject: Re: ?Figlet
Date: 5 Nov 1994 18:21:21 GMT
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In article <39b185$ch1@hydra.cs.hope.edu>,
Darrick Brown <dbrown@cs.hope.edu> wrote:
>bdheard@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:
>
>: I'm having a bit of trouble with Figlet, that program
>: we have all come to know and love. Anyway I ftp'd to the
>: official Figlet site (ftp.isu.edu) and downloaded the
>: compressed tarred version. I uncompressed it, and ran
>
>: tar -x figlet2.1.1.tar
       ~~~~

>
>: on it. Here's it what it gave me.
>
>: tar: Can't open:  /dev/rmt0h
>: /dev/rmt0h: No such device or address
>: tar: Please press RETURN  to retry
>
The problem there is that you've left off the -f switch.  Tar, by default, 
looks for a tape backup system, and to use it on a normal file, you have to
tell it that.  Try: tar -xf figlet2.1.1.tar