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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 08:05:49 -0800
To: "Leonard 'leveret' Lau" <leonardl@po.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: XFree86
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At 01:41 PM 3/4/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi, I was trying to install the XFree86 in one of the computer in my
>office, that fact is, that computer didn't connect to any network and I
>don't have a CD-ROM for the program, so I tried to download the stuff in
>of the PC and transfer the files to the computer that I wanna install by
>floppy disks, I know it's kinda dumb but that's the only way.  My question
>is, the X32bin.tgz file is too big, as I tried to untar the file, the long
>file name messed me up, is there a source that I can get a smaller chunks
>version of the same file?

Yer not supposed to untar *.tgz files, are ya? I mean, I suppose you
could, but seems like the pkg_add command would be easier...

-Tim