how do you read gzipped files?

[lugoteehalt]

I know it's possible to read .tar.gz files but I can't do it. It would
be nice to read gzip, tar, and bzip files. How is this done, what
plugin, or whatever, is needed?

Completely unable to find out elsewhere. Huge thanks any help.

[Fuzzy Logic]

WinZip and WinRAR can both handle tar, gzip, bzip2 and many other formats.

Fuzzy

[Abhinav Gautam]

I think windows XP lets you do this

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[lugoteehalt]

Thanks. Err....how do you do it in Linux??

[Abhinav Gautam]

oh sorry

On 11/10/05, lugoteehalt <lugot...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Thanks. Err....how do you do it in Linux??

[Fuzzy Logic]

I generally assume people are using Windows unless they say otherwise.

In Linux, you use:
tar to view .tar
gzip to view .gz
bzip2 to view .bz2

use the man command to read about the commands

man tar
man gzip
man bzip2

Fuzzy

On 11/10/05, lugoteehalt <lugot...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[lugoteehalt]

Thanks, I'll have a look at the manuals. But, maybe I'm being dense,
will the manuals say anything about firefox?

The thing is someone told me they could just open a .tar.gz file and
read it directly with firefox - as, say, lynx reads .gz files. The main
thing is to be able to read gziped html files without the trouble of
manually ungzipping them first.

[Fuzzy Logic]

That's not possible without a plugin. I prefer to save to disk before
opening, so I'm not familiar with an extension for this.

Fuzzy

[lugoteehalt]

Great thanks again. Worked it out, I think: what you're supposed to do
is install 'file-roller' and 'archive manager'. It then opens when you
click a .tar file and you just click the file you want.

Sorry to bugger you about.:-)

[Joseph Wilkinson]

I'm glad there are other people in this group using Linux, that means you all are real geeks!  Do those instructions change based on your version of Linux?  I run SuSE 9.1, should I do it any differently?  I believe in SuSE there is a way to unzip with YaST, but I'm not sure.

[Fuzzy Logic]

It was a good question. If no-one asks, no-one learns.

Fuzzy

On 11/15/05, lugoteehalt <lugot...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

[Fuzzy Logic]

One need not be a geek to use Linux, just willing to try something new.

I've never used a distribution that didn't use the same commands to
unzip files. Yast is a nice tool, but a little bit of overkill for
decompressing archives, but if it has that as a feature, that's
useful.

Over time, the various distros will become more user-friendly.

Fuzzy

[Abhinav Gautam]

It was a good question. If no-one asks, no-one learns.

One need not be a geek to use Linux, just willing to try something new.

     
I agree