Working with files

[Nuitarii Caligatio]

Greetings,
I am using Mandrake 8.1 and I am trying to figure out how to handle .tar.gz files. I understand that they are, for lack of a better term, zipped. I have tried looking on the net for assistance as well as the help in KDE and I am getting no where. Long story short, does anyone know where I can go to get the command + options for handling these file types? :confused:

-Man, what a jumble of words..

[ 13 March 2002: Message edited by: Nuitarii Caligatio ]

[csumb brad]

open up a terminal and type man tar. that should give you a good start.

-bradly

[Nuitarii Caligatio]

Thank you kindly. :)

[PimpHolic]

if you are wondering how to "un-tar" a tar acrhive, this is what you do:
for a tar.gz file
tar xvzf <filename.tar.gz> or
tar xvf <filename.tar.gz>
(dont ask my why, but sometimes the file is not "gzipped" or somtehing so the first method doesnt work)
tar xvyf <filename.tar.bz2>
(notice the last one is for .bz2 files