From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 2 14:05:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18279 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:05:26 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA18256 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 14:05:18 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA26341; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:04:58 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA14005; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:04:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA05057; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:31:20 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511022131.WAA05057@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Getting kernel source code To: mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:31:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Raul Zighelboim" at Nov 2, 95 09:34:08 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 426 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > After doing that I try to untar/unzip the files, and I get a 'this is not > a gzip file' message. How do I expand the source files ? This is becoming a FAQ... cd /usr/src cat /where/the/ssys/lives/ssys.* | gzip -d -c | tar -xvf - -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)