ravi kiran wrote: > i need to unpack some .tgz's. can you please let me know what is a > .tgz or where can i find the info about .tgz's and how to unpack them. .tgz = .tar.gz $ man tar $ tar -rtfm -xvzf foobar.tgz ...and please stop sending HTML formatted mails to this list. Julian Mehnle.