From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 28 16:39:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D30ED37B9B9; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA09623; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bhishan) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200002290039.QAA09623@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: how ?/ In-Reply-To: <200002281938.OAA32995@server.baldwin.cx> from John Baldwin at "Feb 28, 2000 02:38:51 pm" To: John Baldwin Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:39:04 -0800 (PST) Cc: "Fred J. Lomas" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Even though he should install it from the ports collection, he will probably need to know it for the future. tar -zxf filename.tar.gz that will basically ungzip and untar that archive for you. see "man tar" for further information. --bhishan > > On 28-Feb-00 Fred J. Lomas wrote: > > I just dl netscape 4.72 and it has a .tar.gz at the end , not sure what > > I need to do to extract it ,,, anyone help > > Why not install Netscape via the Ports system, it does all the work for > you. Check the Handbook at www.FreeBSD.org for more info. > > > aj > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message