From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 14:44:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C96537BF53; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:44:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-247.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.247] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA01422; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:45:13 +1100 From: Danny To: Bhishan Hemrajani , John Baldwin Subject: Re: how ?/ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:45:00 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: "Fred J. Lomas" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <200002290039.QAA09623@cytosine.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030209454300.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > -- > > > > 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message