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Old 09-06-2001
Question gunzip....problem
Hi...........

i have downloaded...sunscreen3.1 lite frm sunfreeware .com and it is in tar.gz format..so i download gzip also...

now pls tell me how to install gzip and how to unzip tht sunscreen tar.gz file..............after unzipping i have to untar the tar file or not.....pls tell me in little details...........and let me know if thr is sm commands

# pwd
/usr/local
# ls -al
total 1348
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Sep 6 11:12 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 root sys 1024 Sep 6 10:58 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 291328 Sep 6 11:07 gzip-1.2[1]
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 374272 Sep 6 11:12 gzip-126.2[1]

# cd /
#
# ls -al |grep sun
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 59776653 Sep 5 19:11 sunscreen-3[1].1-lite.i38
6.tar.gz
#



regards
prafulSmilie
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Old 09-06-2001
tar -zxvf sunscreen-3[1].1-lite.i386.tar.gz

or

gzip -d sunscreen-3[1].1-lite.i386.tar.gz | tar vxf -
# 3  
Old 09-06-2001
THANKS
THANKS LEE


actually it works fine....


regards
praful
 
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