Files with a .tgz extension, such as extension.tgz, are [tarball]s compressed with [gzip]. They can be extracted using tar by running gnu's tar command in this fashion: tar -zxvf extension.tgz If you don't have a Unix-like system or [Cygwin], you can still extract files from a tgz archive. WinZip may be able to handle them ''([DKF] - Yes it does...)''. Another program called QuickZip does gzip'ed files IIRC. Note: Netscape often will gunzip .tgz files without letting you know, so tar -xvf extension.tgz may be all that's needed. .tar.gz is used more commonly in some circles. ---- Related: [tbz] [tarball] [gzip] [zip] ----