Hi, Get into the directory where the tar ball is. then type the following to unpack the archive. "tar zxpvf file_name.tar.gz" Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun Oliver To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:47 AM 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/b13921dd/attachment.html>
