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Paul Sutton wrote: > > I know this is probably a real basic question but how do I uncompress .tgz > files, I have tried This ia a tarred, gnu zipped file... > tar xvzf filename.tgz With the GNU version of tar this will work fine. Other UNIX's often have tar's that can't handle the z option. In which case you have to gunzip and then untar... My guess is you ftp'ed in text mode and corrupted the file. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.