From: Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: .tgz
Date: 13 Nov 1998 13:13:11 GMT
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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
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