Steve Ruby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: > it do 38+ hours of frantic disk swapping. I went to www.mysql.com and followed > the seemingly most obvious path to downloads. There, i saw the section which > says "Binary (tarball) distributions". I downloaded the item for FreeBSD. Only, > it's not a "gz" it's not a "tar", I don't know what it it is. If there is a Do what? Both the FreeBSD binary tarballs are gzipped tar archives, or so they appear to me. "tar xvfz mysql-3.23.33-unknown-freebsdelf4.2-i386.tar.gz" works for me. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG [EMAIL PROTECTED] 940/367-2744 cell phone http://www.pobox.com/~erc [EMAIL PROTECTED] - text pager I sometimes wonder if the American people deserve to be free - they seem so unwilling to fight to preserve the few freedoms they have left. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
