Re: building everybuddy

Vincent van der Kruit wrote:

> i can download gzip-1.3.5-sol26-sparc-local and i got the file
> how do i use it? it does not end on tar, so I can problably not unpack it.
> 
> If i try it sais directory checksum error or something

Well I suppose gzip should be installed on your Solaris, since this is a very
elementary program. In fact tar with the z option just delegates to gzip.
The everybuddy file ends on .tar.gz right? (.tgz is a short form for .tar.gz)

Just try:

% tar xzfv file.tar.gz

and if it does not work try these 2 commands:

% gzip -d file.tar.gz

this uncompresses file.tar.gz and renames it to file.tar. Then do a:

% tar xfv file.tar

-- Daniel


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