Several users have reported a problem where Firefox 1.5 has problems properly recognizing that files with the .dmg.gz extension (disk images that have been compressed using gzip). For the ...

I've run into a rash of tar.gz files on the internet today that are not actually gzipped. People seem to be just tarring things and then renaming them tar.gz! This of course makes it difficult to ...

While most formats will archive and compress a group of files for you, a few formats are only designed to do one or the other. Tar, for example, only archives files, while gzip and bzip only ...

Previously, we noted how you could use a utility such as OpenUp to decompress the pax.gz file in an Installer document, thus allowing you to see everything that gets installed before you actually ...

TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file extension. The Gzip utility will compress TAR files and save your company hard drive space and network bandwidth.

OK, I've got about 30 .tar.gz files that I'd like to decompress into a directory. What's a good way to decompress all these files without doing 'tar xzvf ...