tar archives.

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Shawn,

	the comand line is:

		gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf -

	This is a "tar"-ed file that has then been compressed with gzip. You have to uncompress it before you untar it.

HTH


You wrote:

-=> Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm receiving.
-=> When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I used were as follows.
-=> tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
-=> Shaun.
-=>   ----- Original Message -----
-=>   From: Shaun Oliver
-=>   To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
-=>   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
-=>   Subject: tar archives.
-=>
-=>
-=>   Hi guys.
-=>   I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
-=>   could somebody help me please?
-=>   thanks in advance Shaun..
-=>

		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
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E-mail:	terry at wasagacottage.com
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