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and why do they always tell you how to extract a tar file? For example, tar -xyz <filename>.tgz. In Mandrake, I just double click it and extract it somewhere. is this the wrong way to extract a file???
A tgz is either a slackpack or short for 'tar.gz' which means gzipped. 'tar.bz2' is compressed with bzip which uses a better but slower compression method. And I use 'tar xjf' for those but do whatever works for you.
" and why do they always tell you how to extract a tar file? For example, tar -xyz <filename>.tgz. In Mandrake, I just double click it and extract it somewhere. is this the wrong way to extract a file???"
Absolutely not. Same thing, only you are using a gui interface instead of command line. End result is exactly the same.
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