Hi Shawn - The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create", the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename follows. So what you want is: tar xzvf filename.tar.gz Hope that helps Chuck On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote: > 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.. > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (86% of Full)
