Re: [newbie] tgz files

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge there different..
> the commands are still the same though..
> tar -zxvf filename.tgz
> or
> tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
> 
Nope. You're mistaken. :-) .tgz and .tar.gz are the same
thing....just that the "tar" and "gz" have been combined to make it
more compatible with "broken" operating systems which can't handle
multiple extensions. :-)
        John