Re: Help with Download

[Kathryn Hargreaves]

Or use GNU tar:

tar -xzvf *.tar


    "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