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From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
To: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Installing a distribution
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:45:32 +0100
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That worked!  Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Grant" <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 12:19
Subject: Re: Installing a distribution


> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
>
> > How do I unpack and install a distribution made available in tar.gz format?
> > (The one in question is a binary distribution of Apache, from their site.)
I
> > uncompressed it with gzip with no problem, but "tar -xf file" complains
about
> > /dev/sa0 not being available.  How is this supposed to work?
>
> Don't use a leading "-". FreeBSD's tar understands gzipping, too, so you
> can just use
> tar zxf apache*.tar.gz
>
>
> --
> jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
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