Re: Help with unzipping files.

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Nuno Donato wrote:
  >Can anyone help me out with a problem.
  >I have downloaded some apps for linux, but they are 
  >compressed. Can anyone tell me how to decompress them.
  >Step by step if possible.

There are various kinds of compression, usually indicated by the filename:

*.gz       -  compressed with gzip, use gunzip 
*.tgz      -  a tar archive compressed with gzip, use gunzip or add the
              z option to tar when unarchiving
*.zip      -  compressed with pkzip (usually on a DOS/Windows system), use
              unzip
*.Z        -  compressed with UNIX compress, use gunzip 
*.bz2  ?   -  compressed with bzip, [not sure what to use here]

There may be others.  Tell us which you are dealing with and we can give
more information.

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