Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 12:01:04 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Onkar <onkar.n.m@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: download source code on Linux Message-ID: <20080514170104.GB99087@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <20080514165605.GA99087@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <6933400d0805140856o715203d6ic5487c2c4021136a@mail.gmail.com> <20080514163159.GB45838@shepherd> <6933400d0805140938s66e752e7x3da6279b49205b91@mail.gmail.com> <20080514165605.GA99087@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:08:08PM +0530, Onkar wrote: > > But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h > > [image: File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa>; > > 1392 > [...] > > what are these ?? > > Tarballs. > > Grab ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.3-RELEASE/src/ > then to get the files out of, say, scontrib, do something like this: > > % cat scontrib.* | tar -xvzf - Chuck Swiger's post caused me to relook at mine. There are .inf files in the mix which will cause tar a bit of heartache above. This would be better: % cat scontrib.[ab]* | tar -xvzf - -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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