QUESTION

[Mike Tavares]

I took the plunge and installed Redhat version 5.1

have had no major problems  just haven't figured out exactly how to
uncompress a file.

I download an IRC program for Xwindows  called xirc.tar.gz

when I try to uncompress this with the tar command I get a screen full of
junk.   Can someone tell me the correct way to do this?

Thanks
-Mike