According to Hughes, Timothy P: While burning my CPU.
>
> for *.tar.gz files. These are TAR archives that have been GZIPPED also. To
> unzip them, first type:
>
> gunzip <file>.tar.gz
Or just use 'tar xzf' to do the whole job in one go.
>
> This will uncompress it and create a file like this. <file>.tar
> Then type:
>
> tar -xovf <file>.tar
>
> This will untar the archive and you can then either compile the source, or
> run the binaries. it is best to do this in a temporary directory, because a
> few tar files do not have the directory structure built in. The tar command
> above will give you verbose output and will create the directory structure
> if the tar archive saved it.
>
>
>
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> Timothy P. Hughes
> Associate Technical Analyst
> American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Tavares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 3:45 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: QUESTION
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
>
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Regards Richard.
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