From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 10: 7:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E3B14DAD for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:07:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA31409; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:06:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:06:45 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price To: Kevin Weiss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where did gunzip put it? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990329111631.00903110@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Kevin Weiss wrote: # I grabbed the latest version of x11amp and the opensound drivers (in *.gz # form). # # I ran gunzip as recommended, and it seemed to work ok, but I honestly don't # know where these files are located. I checked my working directory and saw # nothing new. # # I read the man page for GZIP(1) over and over, but I don't understand how # to "unzip" the files into a directory of my desire. # # PS - mt command line was gunzip -cdv x11amp09.gz (and then on ossound.gz) Using '-c' means send to stdout, so it didn't get saved anywhere, just written to the screen unleass you had stdout redirected somewhere else. Try this instead: gzip -d x11amp09.gz This will uncompress the file and leave x11amp09 in the current directory. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message