Re: [newbie] Can someone explain to me how to.................

[Bob Abbott]

You keep talking about a twice compressed file.  It isn't twice compressed 
tar is just a way to archive files without any compression.  After you make a 
tarball then you can decompress it.
to extract the files you first have to uncompress it and then untar it.

I hpe this helps.
On Monday 24 December 2001 02:53 am, you wrote:
 You are correct about the twice-compressed file.

 You need to do the following (from a terminal):

 1)  gunzip *.*.gz
 2)  tar -xvf *.tar

 Good luck,

 Paul

 --- Mithrilhall2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  install files (that are not rpm) on linux, such as
  something like this
  ghx3_Linux_x86_glibc22_20010802.tar.gz. I
  understand this is compressed
  twice from what I've read, once tar and the other
  gzip but I have no clue
  what to do with it.
 
  Thanks in advance,
  Mithrilhall
 
 
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake support

[Bob Abbott]

- Original Message -
From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support


 I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came
with
 support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response
from
 them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience
of
 their support? I think four days is much too long.
 Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to
 hear from Mandrake.

 Rod




I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake.  I have never
really gotten a response from them.  Even after several e-mails.

Robert C. Abbott
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Montana, The Big Sky Country