Untar files from different locations

Hi all,

My tar file exists in directory: /usr/users/rovolis/test1/archive.tar

Now from directory: /usr/users/rovolis/ i run the following command
tar xvzf /usr/users/rovolis/test1/archive.tar

The problem is that the extraction of files is not done

Any idea why?

Thank you

Let me guess, your (unposted) error is

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

Your problem probably is that you're telling tar to first unzip the file with gzip (option 'z'), but giving it a non-compressed file.