>Is there a easier, newer way than that convoluted string piping from >gzip to tar etc. ?
Given you have a not-too-old version of tar, cd-ing to the directory you would like to have the contents of the tar file extracted to, and entering tar xzvf <tar file> should do the job. But then again, what's wrong with piping? It's the Unix way to do things ;-), and if your version of tar does not understand the "z" option, it might just as well be the best. Greets, Matt -- Divide by cucumber error. Reinstall universe and reboot.
