Re: [LUG] tgz files

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22-Sep-2001 at 20:56:21 Paul Sutton wrote:
> I know this is probably a real basic question but how do I uncompress .tgz
> files,  I have tried
> 
> tar xvzf filename.tgz
> gzip -d filename.tgz
> 
Under Solaris I would simply rename the file:
  mv filename.tgz filename.tar.gz


then unzip with gunzip, and then untar it. Solaris 8 has included the GNU
tar on its additional software CD, so no more of that nonsense for us...:-)


John.

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