I use the emacs. I navigate, list RPM, TAR file within a tar file, or zip
file open a file in tgz file and edit it and save it! ~ very cool ~
let me know if anyone wants it
cheers!
uday
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, shoe wrote:
> Everybody else is jumpin in on this so here's my $1.50 (I apologize in
> advance is someone mentioned this already)
>
> I use lynx, the web browser to easily expand my *.tar.gz files. Just
> navigate to the directory where the file is located type "lynx ." ,this will
> list all the files in the directory. Move down to the file you want to
> expand and hit "f" for full menu, from the menu choose "expand". Viola it's
> done!
>
> -shoe
>
> "John Marlovits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I did read the help tar --h |more
> >but I didn't understand , also it's like 3 pages long, and the z options is
> not
> even listed.
>
> Sure it is, right at the top with all the rest of the options.
>
> ...
> [ -Z, --compress, --uncompress ] [ -z, --gzip --gunzip ]
> [ --use-compress-program COMPRESS ]
> ...
>
> The description of these is near the end of the page.
>
> >At least with Windows you just double click ( with winzip ) and it's done.
>
> If you go in for that sort of thing, use the file manager in your window
> manager. Many file managers recognize compressed archives and "opening"
> them will uncompress and unpack in one step. You don't even have to
> start the program yourself. Just like Windows.
>
> Matthew Saltzman
>
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