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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: .tgz
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 17:02:52 -0700
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Alexander Litvak wrote:
> 
> --
> *** DePaul Online - A Service Provided by:
> *** The Information Technology division of
> *** DePaul University
> What should I use to uncompress files with extension .tgz
> Help!!! I can't get some very much needed software from NET!

My preferred method is to use the mc package. It will look very nicely 
into .tar, .tar.Z, .tar.gz, and .tgz files, and copy stuff out to 
wherever you want it.
-- 

Ken

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