Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 10:20:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: gretchen@lgc.com (Gretchen Neubauer) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Source Code Message-ID: <199609130820.KAA19162@allegro.lemis.de> 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
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