[aclug-L] Re: Decompressing .tgz files

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, David H. Spurlock wrote:

> I recently downloaded some files with a .tgz extension but I am
> not sure how to decompress them. I think that they use gunzip but
> that is as far as my knowledge goes. Anyone have any experience
> with this format?

It's from the old Slackware (or DOS) days of 8.3 ... it's a .tar.gz
that's been visually compressed to .tgz. gunzip it and you'll have a
.tar.

-jeff
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