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Name: kris baerwald
Date: November 7, 2003 at 06:59:06 Pacific
OS: redhat 8.0
CPU/Ram: 550/128
Comment:

I need to unzip or uncompress this file....TapeRx.lx.tar.gz but I'm not sure how (newbie)



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Name: Jared Felton
Date: November 7, 2003 at 07:20:17 Pacific
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tar xvzf TapeRx.lx.tar.gz

x- extract
v- verbose
z- unzip with gzip
f- filename



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Response Number 2
Name: kris
Date: November 7, 2003 at 07:39:49 Pacific
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thank you


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Response Number 3
Name: kris
Date: November 7, 2003 at 08:12:22 Pacific
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ok, but now after unzipping I have this file TapeRx.lx How do I execute it?


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Response Number 4
Name: yourfriend
Date: November 8, 2003 at 00:39:07 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Kris,

To make a file executable , you first need to change its permissions.

# chmod 755 yourfile

Then execute

# ./yourfile



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Response Number 5
Name: kris baerwald
Date: November 11, 2003 at 04:59:00 Pacific
Reply:

thank you , thats what I needed to do....


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