IO01036@MAINE.BITNET (03/25/91)
Hi! I want to configure XView on my system , and have the source for version2 from MIT . It is in the form of xview2.tar.Z.a a-i!. I just am at a loss as to how I should merge these tar files into one. I tried earlier and there was a difference of one byte and the thing bombed. Basically , I tried : cat xview2.tar.Z.a a-i! >> xview2.tar.Z where xview2.tar.Z was a existing file of zero bytes . Well , the file ( as mentioned in the documentation ) should have had 4132499 bytes but by doing what I did created a file of 4132498 bytes , the a'rithme- ic sum of all individual files . Clearly ,I missed something and can anybody help me ? Thanx in anticipation , R.K. Minhas .