Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm receiving. When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I used were as follows. tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys. Shaun. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun Oliver To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM Subject: tar archives. Hi guys. I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention. could somebody help me please? thanks in advance Shaun.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20010306/36b3f10b/attachment.html>