*.gz files are compressed with GNU's gzip program. You can use gzip to compress the file and gunzip or gzip -d (I think) to uncompress the file. Gunzip is a symbolic link to the gzip program so when the program is run it can tell which command was used to call it and that's how it knows to do uncompression instead of compressing. Unix is great! you can use gunzip and pip the compressed tar file into tar ala pipe or you can do what you did because tar probably has gzip logic inside; doubt it calls gunzip. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Ruby [mailto:jruby@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 7:42 AM To: linux speakup Subject: lynx 2.8.5 dev 2 Hi, I have downloaded this and was able to use tar -xzvf to uncompress it because it was a tar.gz file, how do you uncompress gz or bz files? Thanks for everyones responces this far. The people on this list have been wonderful help. I have a friend who is going through a local user group about 50 miles away and well lets just say you all are great and if I was to compare the responces to the user group, well heven comes to mind. my mile problem is some what figured out at least I can send and receive with pine, mutt on the other hand sending mail, who knows where it is going, so will have to look in the .muttrc file and see what I can find. I'm wondering how we can spead the reading up a bit when going through message lists and actually reading the message. Here is what I would like to do: list messages list in different order, maybe start with subject person date When you hit return on the message just hear from subject lines and then the message. My goal is to read mail and the web as fast or faster then in winblows. If this can be done then it will be one more thing I do not have to rely on winblows for. I understand some of the speed comes from knowing your screen reader and I am learning. The next thing that would be nice is a x reader as it seems I have ran in to so many programs saying can't open display or it requires x. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
