On 13-Sep-2001 shyamk@eth.net wrote: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf > tgz -> a gzip'ed tar. Use tar xvf filename.tgz. It is basically a shorthand for .tar.gz. It is from the days when people has to deal with MS DOS which only allows one extension of 3 letters.