or: tar -xzf mydir.tgz mydir On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Creager, Robert S wrote: > > The best would be: > > <bzip2 *.foo> > > But while bzip2 is available on Windows > (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/), > not everyone has it. So, the second best choice would be: > > <gzip --best *.foo> > > You have both of these on you Linux systems. > > Cheers, > Rob