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Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:56:23 PST7
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: tar.gz files

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Yes, it is a tarball but is is also zipped (the gz part). It was a long time ago but I got a gz
unziper off hobbes and was able to unzip then untar.

Sheridan

PS From somewhere I seem to remember that infozip's unzipper will ungz. You might try it.

Tom Brown wrote:
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> If you are responding to someone asking for help who
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> I have just d/l ghostscript 7.32 beta. The file is:
> 11-05-02 7:38p 5450033 ghostscript-7.32.tar.gz
> I am trying to figure out how to open this file. I know that it is a
> tarball, and suspect that I should therefore use some sort of tar
> program to do this. I have a version of tar:
> 2-19-95 4:26p 60520 TAR.EXE
> When I try:
> tar -xvf ghostscript-7.32.tar.gz
> it opens another window, flashes something for about .001 second, then
> the window closes, and I'm sitting here feeling stupid.
>
> Can someone give me a clue (preferably detailed) as to how to unpack
> this thing?
>
> Thanks!
>

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