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From: | Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: .tgz |
Date: | 13 Nov 1998 13:13:11 GMT |
Organization: | Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam |
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Sunnvius <keso-98 AT swipnet DOT se> wrote: > Nathaniel Johnson wrote in message ... >>does anyone know how to uncompress .tgz files in unix? [Sunnvius' offensive yelling deleted] > (I think "tar -zxvf foo.tgz" don't remember...=) Won't work always, only if your using GNU tar. The canonical way is: "gzip -dc foo.tgz | tar xvf -" A good thing (as usual on unix) is to search the man-page of tar and gzip: "man tar" and "man gzip" hth, Robert -- rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl | "En dat is niet waar!" sprak ex-Staatsecretaris- www.cs.vu.nl/~rjvdboon | van-Onderwijs Netelenbos fel.
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