Re: stupid question

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 20 Sep 1999, in message <43BEAEFE36D9D111830C00A0C9A92FFE033DC3FA CO7010EXCH101U>
  "Gonzalez, Francisco (Fran)" <fjgm lucent com> wrote:
| I'm sorry if this is an stupid question, but, How do I install ELF.tgz files

A .tgz file is a gzipped tar file. Unpacking can be done with
	gunzip < yourfile.tgz | tar xvf -
or (with GNU tar, which is what linux uses)
	tar xvzf - < yourfile.tgz

However, you want to be standing in the right spot when you do that.
Surely this came with some instructions? If not, make a directory
somewhere (eg in /tmp), cd into it, and unpack the file there.
The look for a README and/or INSTALL file and read it.
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