<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman;}</style></head><body>1. Change the file permissions for the Foobar-42_X26LMAQ.tar file so that everyone can read, write, and execute the file:<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> chmod 777 Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span><br>2. Decompress the Foobar-42_X26LMAQ.tar file: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">tar –xvf Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span><br><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Rob Miller <robarooney@gmail.com><br>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug@cialug.org><br>Sent: Tue, 3 May 2011 08:15:15 -0500 (CDT)<br>Subject: [Cialug] Can someone translate for me?<br><br><div>Can someone translate this *nix phrase into "instructional English"? TIA.</div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">In the FooBar2.1 directory:</span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></strong> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">1.<span> </span>chmod 777 Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">2.<span> </span>tar –xvf Foobar_42_X26LMAQ.tar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span> </p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><div>Would the translation be something like:</div><div> </div><div>1. Copy the compressed Foobar file (*.tar) to the FooBar2.1 directory.</div><div>2. Set the file permissions using the chmod 777 command.</div><div>3. Extract the compressed contents of the Foobar file (*.tar) using the tar -xvf command.</div><div> </div><div>Again, thanks for the help.</div></span></div><br><br></cialug@cialug.org></robarooney@gmail.com></body></html>