Hi Matthew,
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From: "Matthew P. Marino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You've got a looooong way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an
> ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into
a
> contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You
should
> have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu compression
> utility. The mysql tarball is tar'd and gzip'd so one normally has to;
>
> gzip -d mysql.tar.gz
> tar -xvf mysql.tar
What's wrong with doing :-
tar -zxvf mysql.tar.gz
??
Just about all the later tar's work fine like this, and it save doing the
two step. ;)
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