Re: how do i uncompress the tar archive

["Vishal Khanna" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why are we getting into using Lynx for Such a simple operation guys remember
KISS ( Keep it Stupid and Simple)

Vishal K



>The most user friendly option is to use lynx. Execute "lynx ." to browse
>the current directory. go to the tar file and press "f" for full menu. You
>have lot of options, you can chose one of them. You can also use use lynx
>to do a lot of other file operations like deleting a file with
>unrecognisable characters.
>Bye,
>Vinay
>
>
>On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Binand Raj S. wrote:
>
>> rohit sharma forced the electrons to say:
>> > how can i uncompress the tar archive after uncompressing the gz file
say the
>> > original one is
>> > blah.tar.gz
>> > i executed gunzip blah.tar.gz
>> > i got
>> > blah.tar
>> > i couldn't uncompress it further than this i digged up the man too but
>> > couldn't get to know further as error is always generated.
>>
>> The way to untar a tar file is
>>
>> tar xf whatever.tar
>>
>> You can use tar directly on a .tar.gz file as:
>>
>> tar zxf whatever.tar.gz
>>
>> This works only on GNU tar, however.
>>
>> Binand
>>
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