"john smith" <inquirer23@hotmail.com> wrote: >I would like to zip a directory... gunzip -c > pixmaps.gz doesn't seem to >work. Also, I don't have a root password, I am an ordinary user only. No need to be root. Try 'tar czvf pixmaps.tar.gz pixmaps', if you're trying to compress the pixmaps directory. 'tar xzvf pixmaps.tar.gz' will decompress it again. -- Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]