tar archives.

tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

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Hi guys.
I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
could somebody help me please?
thanks in advance Shaun..

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Re: tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

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Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm receiving.
When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I used were as follows.
tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
Shaun.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shaun Oliver 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
  Subject: tar archives.


  Hi guys.
  I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
  could somebody help me please?
  thanks in advance Shaun..

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Re: tar archives.

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Shawn,

	the comand line is:

		gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf -

	This is a "tar"-ed file that has then been compressed with gzip. You have to uncompress it before you untar it.

HTH


You wrote:

-=> Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm receiving.
-=> When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I used were as follows.
-=> tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
-=> Shaun.
-=>   ----- Original Message -----
-=>   From: Shaun Oliver
-=>   To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
-=>   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
-=>   Subject: tar archives.
-=>
-=>
-=>   Hi guys.
-=>   I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
-=>   could somebody help me please?
-=>   thanks in advance Shaun..
-=>

		--terry

Name:	Terry D. Cudney
Phone:	(905)735-6127
E-mail:	terry@wasagacottage.com
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Re: tar archives.

[Geoff Shang]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Terry D. Cudney wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
>
> 	the comand line is:
>
> 		gzip -cd file.tar.gz | tar xf -

This will work fine for *all* implementations of tar, even older versions
that are not gnu tar.  However, it is overly complex and 'tar -zxf
filename.tar.gz' will do the same thing on systems that support it (which
should include all linux systems).

Geoff.

Re: tar archives.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Shawn -
The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create",
the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
follows. So what you want is:

tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

Hope that helps
Chuck
 On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm receiving.
> When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I used were as follows.
> tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
> Shaun.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Shaun Oliver 
>   To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
>   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
>   Subject: tar archives.
> 
> 
>   Hi guys.
>   I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
>   could somebody help me please?
>   thanks in advance Shaun..
> 

My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (86% of Full)

Re: tar archives.

[Geoff Shang]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> Hi Shawn -
> The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
> four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create",
> the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
> 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> follows. So what you want is:
>
> tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially if
you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:

tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more

This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want to
be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I did
this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.

For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My version
has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your tar
manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack bz2
files.

Geoff.

Re: tar archives.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Good points, Geoff -

Another way to preview a.tar.gz or a .tgz file is to use the viewer 'less'
- it is smart enough to show you what is in the archive.

Chuck

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > Hi Shawn -
> > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
> > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create",
> > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
> > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > follows. So what you want is:
> >
> > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> 
> A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially if
> you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
> silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
> before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:
> 
> tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more
> 
> This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want to
> be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
> contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I did
> this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.
> 
> For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My version
> has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
> this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your tar
> manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack bz2
> files.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

thanks for all your help chuck geoff and gregory and all others I've
extracted the file and compiled it..
remember I'm working via telnet at the moment I'm accessing an external
linux shell but no metter I'll have my own 1 day hehehe..
Shaun
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: tar archives.


>
> Good points, Geoff -
>
> Another way to preview a.tar.gz or a .tgz file is to use the viewer 'less'
> - it is smart enough to show you what is in the archive.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Shawn -
> > > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would
use
> > > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or
"create",
> > > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one
is
> > > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > > follows. So what you want is:
> > >
> > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> >
> > A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially
if
> > you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
> > silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
> > before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:
> >
> > tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more
> >
> > This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want
to
> > be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
> > contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I
did
> > this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.
> >
> > For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My
version
> > has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
> > this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your
tar
> > manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack
bz2
> > files.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: tar archives.

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi Chuck
How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
gunzip.

     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> Good points, Geoff -
> 
> Another way to preview a.tar.gz or a .tgz file is to use the viewer 'less'
> - it is smart enough to show you what is in the archive.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Shawn -
> > > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
> > > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create",
> > > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
> > > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > > follows. So what you want is:
> > >
> > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> > 
> > A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially if
> > you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
> > silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
> > before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:
> > 
> > tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more
> > 
> > This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want to
> > be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
> > contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I did
> > this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.
> > 
> > For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My version
> > has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
> > this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your tar
> > manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack bz2
> > files.
> > 
> > Geoff.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
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> 
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Re: tar archives.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Frankie -

My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones
produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz"  and there it is. I
compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all
the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names -
not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version
number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on
purpose!)

Chuck
 On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:

> Hi Chuck
> How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
> you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
> gunzip.
> 
>      Frank Carmickle

My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full)

Re: tar archives.

[Frank Carmickle]

Hey Chuck!

Where can I get that version.  I just updatd my less for the version that
came with slack 7.0 to slack 7.1's.  the version of less that comes with
7.1 is 340.


     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> Hi Frankie -
> 
> My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones
> produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz"  and there it is. I
> compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all
> the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names -
> not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version
> number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on
> purpose!)
> 
> Chuck
>  On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chuck
> > How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
> > you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
> > gunzip.
> > 
> >      Frank Carmickle
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full)
> 
> 
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Re: tar archives.

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi chuck and all

Well I don't have a clue about what you guys are talking about.  Such
things as less or cat should show you the compressed infomation which is
very much a binary.  Chuck sent me his version of less and it works just
the way I thought just like mine did.  I can understand zcat and zless
showing you the tar archive one file at a time like it does.  It however
certainly doesn't give me a file listing.  


     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> 
> Hi Frankie -
> 
> My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones
> produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz"  and there it is. I
> compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all
> the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names -
> not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version
> number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on
> purpose!)
> 
> Chuck
>  On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chuck
> > How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
> > you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
> > gunzip.
> > 
> >      Frank Carmickle
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full)
> 
> 
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Re: tar archives.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I guess I have an enchanted computer.



On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:

> Hi chuck and all
> 
> Well I don't have a clue about what you guys are talking about.  Such
> things as less or cat should show you the compressed infomation which is
> very much a binary.  Chuck sent me his version of less and it works just
> the way I thought just like mine did.  I can understand zcat and zless
> showing you the tar archive one file at a time like it does.  It however
> certainly doesn't give me a file listing.  
> 
> 
>      Frank Carmickle
> phone:     412 761-9568
> email:     frankiec@dryrose.com
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Frankie -
> > 
> > My less shows me a directory listing of .tgz files resembling the ones
> > produced by "ls -l". I just type "less filename.tgz"  and there it is. I
> > compared that with the "tar -xtf filename.tgz" method, and found that all
> > the same files were shown, except the latter method shows only the names -
> > not permissions, ownership, etcetera. My less reports 354 as a version
> > number. I did nothing special here to make it happen (at least not on
> > purpose!)
> > 
> > Chuck
> >  On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Chuck
> > > How do you get less to view what's in a tarball?  If you use zless maybe
> > > you could see that with out using other means but less doesn't know how to
> > > gunzip.
> > > 
> > >      Frank Carmickle
> > 
> > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full)
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > 
> 
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Re: tar archives.

[Geoff Shang]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I guess I have an enchanted computer.

I think I've solved it.  I listed the contents of the debian less package,
and there is a file /usr/lib/mime/pacages/less which contains the
following:

text/plain; less '%s'; needsterminal; priority=8
text/*; less '%s'; needsterminal; priority=2
*/*; less '%s'; needsterminal; priority=0

Don't know for sure, but perhaps you can define stuff in here that
determins less's behaviour on various mime types.  Just a thought.

Geoff.

Re: tar archives.

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

Nah scrap that last one.  I just found out how to do it under debian,
anyway.  Take a look at the lessfile manpage.  I presume that slackware
does something similar.  Don't know exactly what the eval $(lessfile)
directive does, but it seems to cause less to preprocess the tgz file
through lessfile before printing its contents, hence you get the right
output.

Geoff.

Re: tar archives.

[Christopher Moore]

Perhaps Chuck has a .lessrc file with some special options for reading tar
files.

73, Chris w1gm@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

Re: tar archives.

[Gregory Nowak]

I've also read that "zcat" file_name works.
Greg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: tar archives.


>
> Good points, Geoff -
>
> Another way to preview a.tar.gz or a .tgz file is to use the viewer 'less'
> - it is smart enough to show you what is in the archive.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Shawn -
> > > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would
use
> > > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or
"create",
> > > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one
is
> > > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > > follows. So what you want is:
> > >
> > > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> >
> > A couple of comments.  The -v option can get quite annoying, especially
if
> > you're unpacking something big.  If you omit it, it will unpack it
> > silently, which is what I do.  Also, I'd rather know what it's unpacking
> > before I do it, not as I do it,  hense I use:
> >
> > tar -ztf filename.tar.gz |more
> >
> > This is useful as tar files usually create a subdirectory, and you want
to
> > be sure that it's not going to be a directory that already exists as the
> > contents of the tar file will mingle with any files already there.  I
did
> > this to a linux kernel source tree once and it made a nice mess.
> >
> > For the bz2 flag, this varies from version to version of tar.  My
version
> > has I (that's capital I).  Apparently, some other implelementations use
> > this for something else, so recent versions of tar use j.  Check your
tar
> > manpage or the built-in command help (tar --help) if you wish to unpack
bz2
> > files.
> >
> > Geoff.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (93% of Full)
>
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Re: tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

hi chuck now I remember hehehe that's what I was doing wrong thinks heaps
man..
Shaun
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: tar archives.


> Hi Shawn -
> The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
> four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or "create",
> the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
> 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> follows. So what you want is:
>
> tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
>
> Hope that helps
> Chuck
>  On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm
receiving.
> > When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must
specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters I
used were as follows.
> > tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
> > Shaun.
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Shaun Oliver
> >   To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
> >   Subject: tar archives.
> >
> >
> >   Hi guys.
> >   I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have
access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files
with a .tar.gz extention.
> >   could somebody help me please?
> >   thanks in advance Shaun..
> >
>
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (86% of Full)
>
>
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Re: tar archives.

[Shaun Oliver]

I've just read through my emails today and thank you to all or you for your
help re tar archives.
Shaun..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@sgtnet.com.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: tar archives.


> hi chuck now I remember hehehe that's what I was doing wrong thinks heaps
> man..
> Shaun
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh@mhonline.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 12:32 AM
> Subject: Re: tar archives.
>
>
> > Hi Shawn -
> > The parameters do not need the leading '-', and ordinarily you would use
> > four letters The first one is either 'x' or 'c' for "extract" or
"create",
> > the next letter is either 'z' or 'y' for "gz" or "bz2", the third one is
> > 'v' for "verbose", and the fourth one is 'f' meaning that the filename
> > follows. So what you want is:
> >
> > tar xzvf filename.tar.gz
> >
> > Hope that helps
> > Chuck
> >  On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> >
> > > Hi again guys. this might give yu an insite as to the errors I'm
> receiving.
> > > When I try tar parameters filename, I get a mesage sayint you must
> specify one of the Atracks options or something like that. the perameters
I
> used were as follows.
> > > tar -vw eggdrop1.6.2.tar.gz thanks again guys.
> > > Shaun.
> > >   ----- Original Message -----
> > >   From: Shaun Oliver
> > >   To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > >   Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:47 PM
> > >   Subject: tar archives.
> > >
> > >
> > >   Hi guys.
> > >   I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have
> access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack
files
> with a .tar.gz extention.
> > >   could somebody help me please?
> > >   thanks in advance Shaun..
> > >
> >
> > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
> > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (86% of Full)
> >
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Re: tar archives.

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi,

Get into the directory where the tar ball is. then type the following to unpack the archive. 
"tar zxpvf file_name.tar.gz"
Greg


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shaun Oliver 
  To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:47 AM
  Subject: tar archives.


  Hi guys.
  I'm currently using linux slackware via telnet at the moment I have access to a shell thanks to a friend and I need to know how to unpack files with a .tar.gz extention.
  could somebody help me please?
  thanks in advance Shaun..

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re: tar archives

[Tyler Spivey]

try :
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less/
or do a file search for it . their is a slackware pkgfind somewhere out their, look at www.slackware.com

tar archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I am sorry if I sounded flippant in my earlier "enchanted
computer" remark. I cannot understand why Frank's less works differently
from mine, or rather why my copy of less works differently on Frank's
system than it does on mine. Mine is version 354, it came as part of my
Slackware 7.1 distribution which I downloaded from the website, and it
does all kinds of convenient things. It shows an "ls -l" type directory
listing of not only .tgz archives, but .bz2 archives as well. I even store
my copies of Linux Gazette in files of this sort: "issue##.txt.gz" where
'##' is the issue number, and read them by just typing "less
issue##.txt.gz".  It silently just unzips (okay, 'gunzips') those puppies
and puts the original text content of all the items on the screen, with
all the functio;nality of less immediately available.

Does it work like that for anyone else?

Chuck


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (95% of Full)

Re: tar archives

[Kirk Wood]

My less doesn't work the same way. But it is several itterations lower at
346. Maybe it is time to find how to cause my debian to update all the
stuff. Anyone care to tell me what command to look at? (I don't mind RTF,
but not sure which fine manual.)

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net

Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it.

Re: tar archives

[Buddy Brannan]

Actually, you can do (as root)
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Although, I would first change all the references to "potato" to refer
to woody. Woody isn't unstable anymore, it's "testing" and pretty
stable. Then you can do your update and dist-upgrade.
-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV    | I choose you to take up all of my time.
Email: davros@ycardz.com | I choose you because you're funny and kind
Phone: (972) 276-6360    | I want easy people from now on.
                         | --the Nields

tar archives

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I just sent Frankie a note about an obscure (to me anyway) feature of
'less' which lets it invoke an 'input preprocessor' to decode an input
file and present it transparently to the viewer. Apparently my Slackware
installation created the necessary environment variable and decoding
script when less was installed, and evidently Frankie's installation did
not.

Eureka! Neither of us is crazy! (not on that account anyway).

Chuck


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full)

Re: tar archives

[Frank Carmickle]

Hi Chuck and all!

Yes this was a mistory but now that mistory is history!!!  Now making it
work like that on my slackware 7.0/7.1 system!  I think I know what's
happening.  I believe that the .lessrc and .less files are not getting
sourced on login.  Heck they weren't even in root's home directory.  So I
am going to see if I can't get the slack7.1 upgrade package to fix
this.  Heh!  Maybe!  

     Frank Carmickle
phone:     412 761-9568
email:     frankiec@dryrose.com

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

> I just sent Frankie a note about an obscure (to me anyway) feature of
> 'less' which lets it invoke an 'input preprocessor' to decode an input
> file and present it transparently to the viewer. Apparently my Slackware
> installation created the necessary environment variable and decoding
> script when less was installed, and evidently Frankie's installation did
> not.
> 
> Eureka! Neither of us is crazy! (not on that account anyway).
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (98% of Full)
> 
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