Re: [newbie] Extracting GZ File

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> How do I extract or decompress a gz file?
> For example if the filename is file.gz, what the command line should be
> looked like?
> thanx
>
If you want to extract it for installation, you'd run
gunzip <filename> or gunzip -r <filename> if you suspect
that you're unzipping a compressed directory (often
source code will be distributed as a compressed directory
known as a "tarball." A "tarball" is more often a *.tar.gz
or *.tgz file.)