questions about commands.

[Linux_N00bie]

Okay, with untarring, I have to ask what commands to do... will someone break them down for me, like xvwp etc... that and

What does the following mean?:
-s (symbolic link?)
ln
-a
-f
thanks

[element-x]

You should really know to check the NHF's before asking such a question.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/commands/index.html

[bdg1983]

And also...

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html

and there's always the manual pages.

man tar

man just_about_everything_ else

[bdg1983]

And again also...

man symlink

man ln

Check out the massive amount of documentation in

/usr/share/doc (it is on mine)

all the how-to's, faq's, application documentation and more.