If you are using GNU tar, (which I suppose on an AIX box you arent, but
you can always get it), tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz will uncompress and
unpack the contents directly..
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Tim wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> > I am looking at Exim to replace my current Smail 3.2.0.107 on an AIX
> > 4.3.2 server. Are there any caveats about running Exim on AIX? Also,
> > I am new fairly new to UNIX and can't figure out how to successfully
> > unpack the exim-3.13.tar.gz file. If I use gunzip, it unpacks it to a
> > file named exim.tar-t. What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Normally, gunzip unpacks to exim-3.13.tar and then tar -xf unpacks into
> a directory called exim-3.13. Maybe AIX is being different again. Maybe
> you can run tar -xf on exim.tar-t.
>
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