Thanks for the help ...
I got a little further .... but still get :
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tar: CGI.pm-2.752/CGI.pm - cannot create
tar: CGI.pm-2.752/README - cannot create
tar: CGI.pm-2.752/cgi_docs.html - cannot create
tar: CGI.pm-2.752/Makefile.PL - cannot create
tar: CGI.pm-2.752/cgi-lib_porting.html - cannot create
Results of gunzip & tar:
SUN1>ls
CGI.pm-2.752 CGI_pm_tar
SUN1>ls -l ..
total 0
drwxrwxrwx 3 usract admin 96 Jun 27 14:25 CGI
SUN1>
-----Original Message-----
From: fliptop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: June 27, 2001 13:01
To: Moon, John
Cc: CGI Beginners
Subject: Re: Help with Download
"Moon, John" wrote:
>
> I have downloaded http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/CGI.pm.tar.gz (to
> pc then ftp to Unix as binary to directory when I want to install ) but am
> not familiar with the tar processor... When I tried :
>
> SUN2>tar xvf *.tar
you need to unzip it first:
gunzip *.gz
or, maybe (on a sun os):
gzip -d *.gz
then run a tar -xvf *.tar
