From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 09:55:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA14047 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:55:51 -0800 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA14012 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:55:33 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA01803; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:52:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512011752.KAA01803@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Questions concerning Free BSD To: pattersonj@vncgate1.vnc.aetc.af.mil (Jim Patterson) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 10:52:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jim Patterson" at Nov 29, 95 02:23:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 967 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have the 2.0 (Jan 1994) release of Free BSD. I have a couple of > questions: > > 1. Is there a later/better release of this product? Yes. November 1995. 2.1.0, just released. There is also 2.0.5, which was released halfway in between. > 2. How would I decompress any of the files using a DOS/Windows machine > so that the source code could be viewed in a word processor. I > am particularly interested in the source code for the kernel. Cat the images together into a single gzip image and untar them. Under DOS, you can: COPY BINDIST.* ALL.GZ And either use GNU tar to read the file, or gunzip to unzip it, and one of the windows tar programs. Beware of the relative root. Or if you have some disk and a network card, boot the single install floppy and install it, login as root, and cd /usr/src. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.