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Date:      Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:45:00 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Fred J. Lomas" <aj@8hill.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how ?/
Message-ID:  <00030209454300.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <200002290039.QAA09623@cytosine.dhs.org>

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Why not use

zcat 

Looking forward to your feedback.

danny

dannyh@idx.com.au


On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Bhishan Hemrajani wrote:
> 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
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