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Article #4174Re: NEWBE question Whats the difference between linux redhat VS slackware X-windows is there a diff
From: rcbonie
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
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On 11 Oct 1998 11:58:53 GMT, darjo@arches.uga.edu (Clint Ricker) wrote: >: >If you run netcfg from X-Windows (or select the network setup from >control-panel under X) you can setup your ppp (or any network device) >fairly simply. If you need further details just post. > >To unzip a gzip'd file (say example.gz), type (from the command prompt) >"gzip -d example.gz" This will decompress example.gz into example. > >To untar a file (like example.tar) "type tar xvf example.tar" which will >untar > >Tar and gzip are generally used together...tar gathers a collection of >files into one uncompressed archive and then is used to compress that >archive. The file name will look be either example.tgz or >example.tar.gz. You can either use gzip and then tar (gzip -d example.tgz >gzip -d example.tar) or tar will do gzip for you (type tar xvfz >example.tgz). > >Clint Ricker >darjo@arches.uga.edu Thanks for the response...I'm finna go playy with it and I'll tell you how it comes out..(came out???) :>) Thanks, TheOldMan rcbonie@bellsouth.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f906c,e95ec9a3f43cd2a2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf906c,public X-Google-Thread: 100c5f,e95ec9a3f43cd2a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c5f,public X-Google-Thread: 10a997,e95ec9a3f43cd2a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public X-Google-Thread: 11033e,e95ec9a3f43cd2a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid11033e,public X-Google-Thread: 109482,e95ec9a3f43cd2a2 X-Google-Attributes: gid109482,public From: rcbonie@bellsouth.com Subject: Re: NEWBE question Whats the difference between linux redhat VS slackware X-windows is there a diff Date: 1998/10/11 Message-ID: <36212b78.3443908@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> X-Deja-AN: 400042577 References: <5J5O1.3174$53.6569989@nntp0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net> <36151B89.C88F3DA7@tconl.com> <36207ce5.16869930@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> <6vq6ht$bog$1@cronkite.cc.uga.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:06:44 EST Newsgroups: ahn.tech.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions