One more addition to Gregg's advice, Many of the files you get will also be gunzip'd or bunzip'd. If so, you ad a z or a j respectively to the tar command, e.g. tar xjf myfile.tar.bz2 tar xzf myfile.gz tar xzf myfile.tgz W. Nick Dotson writes: > I have some "tar" files of "html" documents which I downloaded on one of my XP boxes, which I used RAR to decompres the "tar" files and make them into > files I could read using Windows Explorer and move around in the links Etc. Of most immediate interest is the "Introduction to Linux, I've mentioned here bofore. > What I'm wondering is, if I copy that file and any others in "tar" format to a CD-ROM, then, read in the "red Hat Linux 9 v2 (getting started), book and Intro to > Linux, how to access my CD-ROM, can I copy these files onto my hard drive, decompress them and read them on my Linux box? Or, would it be a better > strategy for me to relocate the site from whence they were copied, then, go to it using "LYNX", and download the file directly onto the linux machine? > > Am I correct in assuming that I will have to find out how to perform 2 steps after either method of getting the files onto my Linux machine: decompressing the > files, and running something that can read them? > > Nick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040 If Linux doesn't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem.
