On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I have a tar file on a cd, a very big one. I wanted to decompress it without
> copying the file into my HD. How can I do this?
>
> Regards,
> Carlos
hi carlos,
1. mount your cdrom to /mnt/cdrom
2. cd to where you want to decompress the tarball
3. tar xzvf /mnt/cdrom/filename.tar.gz
hth,
-eric
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