Re: [newbie] dumber than a door nail

2000-04-16 Thread Leanne Leith
well, there's just LIL- now, so we're keeping a boot disk in the floppy drive at all times! -- On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:40:15 Stephen F. Bosch wrote: Leanne Leith wrote: Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders in them. I tried to use tar -zvf

[newbie] dumber than a door nail

2000-04-15 Thread Leanne Leith
Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other combinations. what am I doing wront? Not enough hours in the day to learn all this stuff! ***

Re: [newbie] dumber than a door nail

2000-04-15 Thread Rial Juan
A tar.gz file is a gzipped tar file. A tar file is a "tape archive" file, which basically is an uncompressed kind of archive, meaning: it contains a lot of files, but doesn't compress them. So basically what happens upon creating a tar.gz file is: all input files get put into one big file, and

Re: [newbie] dumber than a door nail

2000-04-15 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Leanne Leith wrote: Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other combinations. what am I doing wront? I thought you couldn't boot. ? -Stephen-

Re: [newbie] dumber than a door nail

2000-04-15 Thread Mike Corbeil
Leanne Leith wrote: Okay, I successfully gunzipped some tar.gz files, now I can't access the sub-folders in them. I tried to use tar -zvf without luck, and tar -z all sorts of other combinations. what am I doing wront? Not enough hours in the day to learn all this stuff! Hours are