access to files

[Janina Sajka]

One more addition to Gregg's advice,

Many of the files you get will also be gunzip'd or bunzip'd. If so, you
ad a z or a j respectively to the tar command, e.g.

tar xjf myfile.tar.bz2
tar xzf myfile.gz
tar xzf myfile.tgz

W. Nick Dotson writes:
> I have some "tar" files of "html" documents which I downloaded on one of my XP boxes, which I used RAR to decompres the "tar" files and make them into 
> files I could read using Windows Explorer and move around in the links Etc.  Of most immediate interest is the "Introduction to Linux, I've mentioned here bofore.  
> What I'm wondering is, if I copy that file and any others in "tar" format to a CD-ROM, then, read in the "red Hat Linux 9 v2 (getting started), book and Intro to 
> Linux, how to access my CD-ROM, can I copy these files onto my hard drive, decompress them and read them on my Linux box?  Or, would it be a better 
> strategy for me to relocate the site from whence they were copied, then, go to it using "LYNX", and download the file directly onto the linux machine?  
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that I will have to find out how to perform 2 steps after either method of getting the files onto my Linux machine: decompressing the 
> files, and running something that can read them?
> 
> Nick
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina at freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

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