[comp.sys.handhelds] Unarchiving star-1.04.2.tar.Z

rbagley@uceng.UC.EDU (Ross A. Bagley) (03/07/91)

I had quite a bit of trouble uncompressing and unarchiving star-1.04.2.tar.Z,
and for all of the rest of the non-tech people out there who want star I
have succeeded in doing so and will tell you how.

1) $ uncompress star-1.04.2.tar
2) $ tar -xvf star-1.04.2.tar

these commands (on unix) correctly and completely unarchived star-1.04 and
the same tar commands (-xvf) should work on ms-dos machines

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bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) (03/08/91)

In a posting of [6 Mar 91 17:05:12 GMT]
   rbagley@uceng.UC.EDU (Ross A. Bagley) writes:

 > 1) $ uncompress star-1.04.2.tar
 > 2) $ tar -xvf star-1.04.2.tar

   I just removed 1.04.2; readers should get 1.04.3 instead. (I
removed it so no one will get 1.04.2 by mistake.)

This is indeed the way to do it, or:

   $ uncompress ../star-*.3*Z | tar xvf -

   It is also worth mentioning that all files will end up in the
current directory, so create and move to a suitable subdirectory first
(e.g. ./star or ./star-sources).

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu

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