Re: Help with Download

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"Moon, John" wrote:
> 
> I have downloaded http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/CGI.pm.tar.gz (to
> pc then ftp to Unix as binary to directory when I want to install ) but am
> not familiar with the tar processor... When I tried :
> 
> SUN2>tar xvf *.tar

you need to unzip it first:

gunzip *.gz

or, maybe (on a sun os):

gzip -d *.gz

then run a tar -xvf *.tar