From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 00:49:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA00374 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA00366 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:49:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA02098; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:18:10 GMT Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:18:10 GMT From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199609131718.RAA02098@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: gretchen@lgc.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source Code X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <32373F12.2EBE@lgc.com> you wrote: : I downloaded the source code directory for one of the version of : FreeBSD. I was unable to unpak it. There is an install.sh shell script : which calls tar with some options that are not supported on either : Solaris 1.x or 2.x (as far as I can find). If I remove the unsupported : options (the ones that give errors), I get a checksum error. Can someone : help me unpak these files? You'll see that they are in "sets" of files.. like.... subin.aa subin.ab subin.ac (for example) Try something like... cat subin.a* | gzip -d | tar tvf - which should produce a list of all the files in that multipart compressed tar archive... if you don't have gzip, you'll need it. To then extract use... cat subin.a* | gzip -d | tar xvf - -C /extract/em/here where "/extract/em/here" is where you wanna extract the files. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!