* shyamk@eth.net <shyamk@eth.net> spake thus: > What is tgz and how do you decompress it ? > > I undertand for gzip it is gunzip , for tar it i tar xvf The .tgz ending is (to my knowledge at least) just a shorthand writing for .tar.gz, so you can use `tar zxfv file.tgz'. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343