On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:57:31 -0400, "Fischer, Roger" <RFischer@PanAmSat.com> wrote:
> 
> Would it hurt to temporarily copy the "tar" and "gzip" to the /bin 
> directory?

Those are not statically linked binaries like the rest of /bin, but
dynamically linked binaries like the rest of /usr/bin.  That means you 
need lib*.so (normally found in /usr/lib) around when you run those.
Also, you need to teach ld.so with ldconfig where it can find lib*.so.

Ken