How do you unarchive with TAR?

[Ray Shwake]

s887212 at minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:

>therefor I recommend:
>tar -xfvo <filename>

	... except that not all implementations support the -o (set ownership
	to that of extractor) option. SCO's Xenix and UNIX, for example, do
	not support it.