Re: Re: how to extract the files in unix

[Jacek Pliszka <pliszka phyun0 ucr edu>]

On 28 Jan 2002, sartajsingh wrote:

> I have downloaded the file version dia-0.88.1.tar.gz.
> I tried doing tar x dia-0.88.tar.gz but no works.

If you have Linux:

tar zxvf dia-0.88.tar.gz

z - uncompress, x - extract, v - verbose, f - from file

if not Linux: 

gunzip dia-0.88.tar.gz
tar -x -f dia-0.88.tar

or:

man tar

If you have Red Hat/Mandrake/Suse/Debian etc. you should be much better 
off with precompiled binaries, search od Dia homepage for links.