Re: files with tar.gz

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Is there a easier way to uncompress these stupid files?
> gunzip -d  filename.tar.gz
> tar who knows how this stupid thing works.. 
> tar -x filename.tar    this just locks up and have to Ctrl c out
> 
> Running redhat ver.6
> 
> Can't I run one thing to totaly uncomress these?  Why are they double compressed?
> 
tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
	John