Before more confusion ensues, please note that "tar zxvf file" will not work on Windows, which the OP uses at least part of the time. Therefore, the file must be unzipped and unarchived in two steps:
gzip -d file.tgz tar -xf file.tar Rob Campbell > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jacek Pliszka > Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:13 PM > To: sartajsingh > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (no subject) > > > On 23 Feb 2002, sartajsingh wrote: > > > few hours . how do we extract the tar files again ? > > just gunzip file names or some options too? > > .tar.gz or .tgz : > > tar zxvf file > > .tar : > > tar xvf file > > .tar.bz2 or .tgb : > > tar jxvf file > > Jacek > > > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
