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Subject: Re: Source Code
To: gretchen@lgc.com (Gretchen Neubauer)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:20:18 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <32373F12.2EBE@lgc.com> from "Gretchen Neubauer" at Sep 11, 96 05:37:06 pm
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Gretchen Neubauer writes:
>
> 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?

Sure.  Why don't you say what the missing options were?  If it's 'z',
that's a new option to GNU tar to ask for decompression with gzip.
The following are equivalent:

   tar xzvf foo.tar.gz

   gunzip < foo.tar.gz | tar xvf -

If that's not it, let's have more details

Greg