From owner-freebsd-www Wed Jul 23 01:11:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03117 for www-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 01:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schubert.promo.de (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA03110 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 01:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [194.45.188.81] (stefan.Promo.DE [194.45.188.81]) by schubert.promo.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02452; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:05:34 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: stefan@mail.promo.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 10:10:03 +0200 To: yossman , www@FreeBSD.ORG From: Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: another little error? Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 5:42 Uhr +0200 23.07.1997, yossman wrote: >on http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook28.html, > > > cd /pub/FreeBSD/ports/databases > > get gnats.tar.gz [tarballs up the gnats skeleton for us] > > quit > # tar xzf gnats.tar.gz [extract the gnats skeleton] > # cd gnats > # make install [build and install gnats] > >shouldn't the command be 'tar xvzf gnats.tar.gz'? Not necessarily. >or does tar automatically gunzip with .tar.gz extentions? Yes, that's what -z is for: $ man tar [...] -v --verbose Lists files written to archive with --create or extracted with --extract; lists file protection information along with file names with --list. [...] -z --gzip --gunzip Filter the archive through gzip(1). -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-0 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/