On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Matthew Willcock wrote:

> Sorry for yet another problem, I have actually bought a UNIX book, but it
> does not help with all problems....
> I have been trying to un-tar a file using tar -x <filename>, but get an 
> error saying /dev/rst0 is not configured the tar file is fine, I can see 
> all the files it contains by viewing it in xemacs.
> 
Try tar -xf filename.

See the tar manual page for what this does. 

Mike