Mike,
Assuming you want to decompress the file in /usr/local do the following:
tar xzvf xirc.tar.gz -C /usr/local
Regards,
Chris Fischer
Mike Tavares wrote:
> 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
