[ltp] Linux on an i1460

José Antonio Milke G. linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:46:47 -0600


Thanks for your answer Anand. For a beginner like me, it helps a lot (I
will try it out as soon as I can install Linux).
Tony

Anand Desai wrote:

> > (My problem is that I don't even know how to unpack a file :-( ).
>
> For a gzipped (compressed) file (*.gz):
> gunzip <filename>
>
> For a tar (multiple files combined into a single file for
> archiving) file (*.tar):
> tar xvf <filename>
>
> For a tarred, gzipped (compressed archive) file (*.tar.gz or *.tgz):
> tar zxvf <filename>
>
> For a PKZIP type archive (*.zip):
> unzip <filename>
>
> BTW, "unzip" might not be on all Linux systems.  tar and gzip/gunzip
> should be.
>
> HTH
>
> --Anand
>
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