From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 21 23:00:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oz.phear.net (slwag1p08.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00788 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:00:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Received: from localhost (jim@localhost) by oz.phear.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00428; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:00:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jim@phrantic.phear.net) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:00:27 +1000 (EST) From: Jim Mock To: "Low, Kian Poh SHQ" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Advice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Low, Kian Poh SHQ wrote: > Greetings, > > Do you have any info to unzip those unix files end with tar.gz or tar.Z > files ? To unzip tar.gz or .tgz files, type this at the prompt.. tar xfvz filename.tar.gz To unzip .gz files type gzip -d filename.gz To unzip tar.Z, I use zcat filename.tar.Z | tar xvf - If you're still unsure, read the man pages for tar. Jim |=> Jim Mock [jim@thunder.st0rm.com] [jim@phrantic.phear.net] <=| |=> st0rm Internet Services | A franchise of Triax, Inc. <=| |=> web: http://www.st0rm.com/ | web: http://www.phear.net/ <=| |=> Website Design & Hosting | Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia <=| |=> FreeBSD: The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org/ <=| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message