Re: unzipping source files

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, John Russell wrote:

> whien i use winzip 7.0 to try to unzip sources
> i get a message saying
> "please enter the full name of file within
> amaya-src-2_1_tar.gz 
> and it defaults to
> amaya-src-2_1_tar.
> trying the default unzips into a 22 meg block
> but doesnt break it down any further
> and i am in the blind as to what other step to follow

	this is covered on the gzip faq page I mentioned before I think.
	Anyway, if you cannot persuade Winzip to read this then you
	can get Gnu Tar (described at:
	http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html 
	Available from:
	ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu/tar/
	nearest to you)
	This can unpack the whole thing in one step
	tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
	but it is best to do
	tar -ztvf filename.tar.gz
	first to make sure that things will be be created where you
	want. t means table of contents.
	.tgz == .tar.gz by the way.

> john russell  VE3LL@RAC.CA
> 
> homepage: http://web.cgocable.net/~jrussel
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk

Received on Wednesday, 18 August 1999 04:02:26 UTC