Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:50:51 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tarball - .tar.gz Message-ID: <200112312050.fBVKopd06850@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:44:52 PST." <20011231204452.83902.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:44:52 -0800 (PST) > From: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Dear all > > I would like to know what is the different between > > 1/ gunzip qmail-1.03.tar.gz > tar xpf qmail-1.03.tar > > and > > 2/ tar zxvf qmail-1.03.tar.gz > > I read many sites using the first one. Not all versions of tar support decompression of gzipped files. The first case will work in these cases. The second will work with FreeBSD as its tar does decompress gzipped files. If you are posting instructions that should work across multiple platforms, the first set is the one to use. If you are expanding the tar file on a FreeBSD system, the second is simpler. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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