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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!swsbe6.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!tuegate.tue.nl!news.IAEhv.nl!oosten!peterj From: peterj@oosten.IAEhv.nl (Peter Joosten) Subject: Re: Help with a .tar.z download Organization: At Home Inc., The Netherlands Message-ID: <Dr1tI3.Kr@oosten.IAEhv.nl> References: <4m8859$as0@nada.cs.utexas.edu> <N.050696.213620.26@Wardish.ns.netscope.net> Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 18:46:51 GMT Lines: 32 In article <N.050696.213620.26@Wardish.ns.netscope.net>, <wardish@netscope.net> wrote: >Hi all > >I'm new to unix and bsdi and I just downloaded netscape 2.0 for bsdi and it's a file with a .tar.z .... > >Now on to the question. How do I install it?...<G> And also where can I get some info on dealing >with .tar and .z files. I have some books ordered but they haven't come in yet... For information look at the man pages of tar and gunzip: man tar man gunzip To uncompress the archive: gunzip archive-name.tar.z This results in the uncompressed archive "archive-name.tar" To look at the contents of the uncompressed archive: tar tvf archive-name.tar | more To extract the umcompressed archive: tar xvf archive-name.tar To uncompress and look: tar ztvf archive-name.tar.z | more To uncompress and extract: tar zxvf archive-name.tar.z Greetings, Peter Joosten (also unix-newbie)