[LUNI] tar question

[Arun Khan]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Khawar Nehal <khawar.nehal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try file "filename"
>
> Where file is also the name of a command
>
> Check out the command "man file" or "info file" to get details.
>
> you can do
> file /bin/ls
> as an example to check the command out.

Thanks for the tips.  I am 100% sure that the one file out of the tape
archive is a regular file i.e. it is not an archive file.

I should have tried the -M option of tar (for multi volume) or dd.

-- Arun Khan