At 10:13 02/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>As I look for programs to install in on my linux box, I have run across
several that have the extension .tgz. What are these files? I know what
.tar and .gz files are and how to uncompress them, but I haven't been
successful with any .tgz file. Would appreciate any help.
>
.tgz files are tar archives (.tar) that have been compressed with gzip.
Use "tar tvfz" to read the contents, "tar xvfz" to extract and uncompress.
hih
nick@nexnix
>Thanks
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>Mike (τΏ~)
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