tar: /dev/sa0

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:45 PM -0500 Miguel Cardenas 
<renito73 at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> Am installing amsn (a msn clone) and it installs and runs fine, but when
> dowloading a TLS module, after decompresing the module for FreeBSD gives
> this  message:
>
> Error installing TLS module: tar: /dev/sa0
> Cannot open. No such file or directory
> tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now.
>
> What is /dev/sa0 ?
>
/dev/sa0 is the default tape drive.  If you don't specify a place to put 
the file(s) when using tar, that's where it will try to put them.

See man tar (1)
> I downloaded the platform independent version. It starts and runs, but is
> not  able to decompress the TLS module 'cos that error... what is that?
>
> Thanks!
>
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Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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