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Help with files

Opening PDF files

Most GNU/Linux distributions come with a PDF viewer installed. If you're using
GNOME you probably have Evince installed, if you use KDE then you'd have Okular or KPDF.

I'm fairly sure Mac OS X already comes with a PDF viewer as standard.

If you're using Windows you'll need to install either the free/open source Sumatra PDF reader, or use Adobe's proprietary Adobe Reader software.

Wikipedia has a list of PDF software.

Opening Tarballs

Any "zipped" files on the site are likely to be tar files compressed with either bzip(2) or gzip.

GNU/Linux users will be able to extract these using:

$ tar -zxvf </path/to/file.tar.gz>

$ tar -jxvf </path/to/file.tar.bz(2)>

or by using a graphical manager (file-roller if you're on a GNOME desktop).

Mac OS X has the Archive Utility program which can open these files.

Windows users may need to install the free/open source 7zip program.

Wikipedia has a comparison of file archivers.

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