On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terry D. Cudney wrote: > Hi Shawn, > > the comand line is: > > gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf - This will work fine for *all* implementations of tar, even older versions that are not gnu tar. However, it is overly complex and 'tar -zxf filename.tar.gz' will do the same thing on systems that support it (which should include all linux systems). Geoff.