Using .tar, gzip, and zip...

[Dr. Shim]

I've just recently downloaded the Macromedia Flash Player, a WinZip clone for Linux, and ICQ Java Preview. They all are in either Gzip or TAR. How do I decompress these? I know you have to do it in the console, but I'm not all to familiure with the commands.

I typed in gzip -d <name of file> and it decompressed the Gzip file. Now its a tar (since the file read ICQJava_Preview.tar.gzip). How do I "untar" the file??? :confused:

[binary_boy]

tar -xvf

[posterboy]

And, if you want to do this all in one fell swoop, tar zxvf will do all of it from the .tgz orginal file. Ray