Hi, first make sure gunzip is installed. To do so, do: apt-get install gzip
Then you can do: tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz It is an archive in whioch all files are put after each other (one big tarred file for tapes). Then that one big file is gzipped. Alternatively you can do: gunzip filename.tar.gz this unzips the tar archive. Then: tar -xvf filename.tar but this methot is not practical. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, hammack wrote: > With "ilename.tar.gz"on a CD, what do I have? > What are the stepsto untar and unzip such a file. > thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >