From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 18:44:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA19378 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.my.domain (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19373 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 18:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by freebie.my.domain (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA22901; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:42:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609130142.VAA22901@freebie.my.domain> Subject: Re: GZ To: sizemore@richmond.infi.net (sizemore) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 21:42:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <3238B3DD.6343@richmond.infi.net> from sizemore at "Sep 12, 96 06:07:41 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sizemore wrote... > What do I do with a gz file? Is it a unix utility? > > Please? > ".gz" is the normal duffix for a file which has been compressed with the GNU zip utility gzip. You will also see ".tgz" files which are 'tarballs', these are archives of many files assembled with the 'tar' program and compressed. In order to decompress the file, run 'gzip -d '. Tarballs may be directly extracted by 'tar xvfz '. John -- Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key