RE: files with tar.gz

[Uday Pai <uday ensim com>]

I use the  emacs. I navigate, list RPM, TAR file within a tar file, or zip
file open a file in tgz file and edit it and save it!  ~ very cool ~
let me know if anyone wants it

cheers!
uday


On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, shoe wrote:

> Everybody else is jumpin in on this so here's my $1.50 (I apologize in
> advance is someone mentioned this already)
> 
> I use lynx, the web browser to easily expand my *.tar.gz files. Just
> navigate to the directory where the file is located type "lynx ." ,this will
> list all the files in the directory. Move down to the file you want to
> expand and hit "f" for full menu, from the menu choose "expand". Viola it's
> done!
> 
> -shoe
> 
> "John Marlovits" <JMarlovits turtlewax com> wrote:
> 
> >I did read the help tar --h |more
> >but I didn't understand , also it's like 3 pages long, and the z options is
> not
> even listed.
> 
> Sure it is, right at the top with all the rest of the options.
> 
> 	...
> 	[ -Z, --compress, --uncompress ] [ -z, --gzip --gunzip ]
> 	[ --use-compress-program COMPRESS ]
> 	...
> 
> The description of these is near the end of the page.
> 
> >At least with Windows you just double click ( with winzip ) and it's done.
> 
> If you go in for that sort of thing, use the file manager in your window
> manager.  Many file managers recognize compressed archives and "opening"
> them will uncompress and unpack in one step.  You don't even have to
> start the program yourself.  Just like Windows.
> 
> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> Clemson University Math Sciences
> mjs clemson edu
> http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
> 
> 
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