Hi kamal!

>i'm neebee to this Linux world.

welcome to the fascinating world of Linux!

> Can you suggest me a
>good book on Linux.

You can search www.tldp.org for good online as well as downloadable books. In
paper back edition, Redhat 9.0 Bible will be a
good book to start.

>Actually i installed the Red Hat
>9.0 but want to know how to install additional addonns
>on system and what is .tar & .gz files.

Different flavors have different ways of providing addons. Debian linux uses
.deb files, redhat uses .rpm.
Under redhat linux packages are distributed as <package.rpm>. You can install
such package by the following command.
rpm -ivh package-name.rpm

Tar files are a bundle of lot of files. Like you pack all your papers in a rim.
.gz files are compressed files as you have zip in
windows.

tar -cvf backupfile-name. tar -P <path> --totals -W
can create a backupfile named "backupfile-name.tar" for you form the <path>
directory.

gzip backupfile-name.tar will compress it to "backupfile-name.tar.gz"

For more details always resort to manual pages and info pages. That is what I
recommend.

Hope this helps!

Post might have been long. It is my first post here. I am regular active member
of Jodhpur LUG.

Regards.

Himanshu

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