At 11:29 11.11.98 +0100, you wrote:

So by that mean you can simply rename a foo.tar.gz to foo.tgz to make it installable with YaST, is that right?

If the archive contains the sort of material Yast installs, yes. Note that quite a few .tar.gz archives contain source code, not binaries, but then again a quick tar ztvf filename will give you an overview of the archive contents. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen peter@datadok.no <A HREF="http://www.datadok.no"><A HREF="http://www.datadok.no</A">http://www.datadok.no</A</A>> Datadokumentasjon A/S, Bredsgaarden 2, N-5003 Bergen, Norway Tel: +47 55 32 08 02 Fax: +47 55 32 14 95 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e