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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:27:04 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl>
Cc:        Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, "Fred J. Lomas" <aj@8hill.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: how ?/
Message-ID:  <38BABDF8.C3242EB6@3-cities.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002281921140.96524-100000@bak.evertsen.nl>

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Ronald Klop wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Gunnar Flygt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 10:11:59AM -0800, Fred J. Lomas wrote:
> > > I just dl netscape 4.72 and it has a .tar.gz at the end , not sure what
> > > I need to do to extract it ,,, anyone help
> >
> > tar xzvf filename
> 
> Or to be a bit more educative (is this good english? :-)
> 
> first:
> gunzip blabla.tar.gz
> and then:
> tar xvf blabla.tar
> 
> gunzip uncompresses a file and tar can (un)archive a lot of files
> together in one file.

The "tar z" option does it in one pass.

Kent

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Ronald.
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> Ronald Klop
> http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/
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