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					Originally Posted by  The Dad Fisherman
					 
				 
				zinf on Fedora 9....I gave up on that one. I was just trying to figure out the method for installing software. Never worked with tar files before. I ended up installing probably 8 other apps that way trying to fix all the dependencies so I figured out the whole ./configure, make, makefile approach to installs that way....so in a round about way I got the answers I was looking for. 
			
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 TARs are UNIX zip files. TAR stands for Tape Archive.