CDitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I hate to admit this, but I am afraid that I am the product of a MS only
> upbringing. I am trying to break free of my MS bonds though. I have
> installed RH and have a basic understanding for Xwindows and Linux itself.
> However, I recently d/led a few programs that have tgz and gz extensions on
> them.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to uncompress and to install
> these programs?
Hi there,
to unpack a .gz file you can use:
gunzip <filename>
Several programs can read those files directly though. One of those is e.g. less
(more) and also tar can read .gz'ed files. Those files then get the extension
.tgz or .tar.gz
You can decompress those files with:
tar xzf <filename>
or on other *nixes which do not support gzip'ed files directly:
gunzip -cd <filename> | tar x
To get an idea to which program a data file belongs you can always try the
command "file":
file <filename>
This tool does not depend on the filename but checks the data which are IN the
file so it's a very reliable way to find the propper "owner application". :-)
Harry
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