Re: gzip question
Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file compression application. (gzip only compresses a single file, but this might apply to tar or similar programs.) Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific directory structure for the files you wish to compress. For example: let's say I have serveral files in my home directory. I want to zip them so that when someone unzips them, the directory structure will be for a windows system something like: c:\Program Files\special directory\ Is there a way to do this? Not really. You could run your tar or whatever from the root directory, so when it's untarred from the root directory it would have the same directory structure. On my system: cd / tar cvf $HOME/mumble.tar mnt/dosc/Program\ Files/special\ directory gzip $HOME/mumble.tar Note that Debian packages internally do something similar (in fact, the package is actually an ar archive consisting of two .tar.gz files, one of which contains the actual files installed in the proper directory layout). But nothing stops you from unpacking the file in your home directory, and getting $HOME/usr/bin/whatever. In fact, this strategy is often useful for doing things like building CD-ROM images from a set of tar files. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:16:06PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Actually this doesn't have to be just in regards to gzip, but any file compression application. Is there a way to force the application to provide a specific directory structure for the files you wish to compress. For example: let's say I have serveral files in my home directory. I want to zip them so that when someone unzips them, the directory structure will be for a windows system something like: c:\Program Files\special directory\ Create the directory structure you want, then tar up the directory, then gzip the tar file. Winzip can extract files from tars and preserve directory structure. -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.rudedog.org/ | ICQ:161669680 UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL Dave is currently listening to Camper Van Beethoven - The Fool (Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: gzip question
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount because it is doublespaced, and it must remain so. So why don't you install dmsdos (available at sunsite), that gives you rw access to doublespaced partitions (most of the times). This is Linux we are talking about. There is even a toolset to access Linux partitions from Windows (DOS). Don't remember the name, though. Use the first solution. Hey, this is *LINUX* we are talking about. ;) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:38:54PM +0100, John wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount because it is doublespaced, and it must remain so. So why don't you install dmsdos (available at sunsite), that gives you rw access to doublespaced partitions (most of the times). This is Linux we are talking about. There is even a toolset to access Linux partitions from Windows (DOS). Don't remember the name, though. Use the first solution. Hey, this is *LINUX* we are talking about. ;) Marcus hey thanks - this, if it works, is *precisely* what I need. :) thanks again John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount it as either msdos or vfat, if its fat32, then there is a kernel patch to support that somewhere. Also why don't you just download the stuff in linux? It would save you alot of grief.. :) pgpXbCqQ3y2Oe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gzip question
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 12:11:06PM +0100, John wrote: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have Why is it non accessible? Linux can read windows partitions, you can mount because it is doublespaced, and it must remain so. it as either msdos or vfat, if its fat32, then there is a kernel patch to support that somewhere. Also why don't you just download the stuff in linux? It would save you alot of grief.. :) this I would like to do. I have pppd *support* in the kernel, but, from the base install, apparently no dialler, and also because it was a base install, no way of looking up the various manpages, because manpages wasn't installed, so even if ppp were installed, I would still have problems configuring it because I couldn't see the manpages! I can now see them, but with groff formatting with gunzip -c bla.tgz | more (in the mandir) so am getting there, albeit slowly. I agree that the best way (in my case0 would be to get the rest of the install from the net via ftp, but my only access to the net is via a phone line (hence ppp) and ppp ain't easy to configure if it's not present in the base install by default, and the instructions for setting it up may/may not be there but there is no pager (man) enabled by default, so I can't see how to set it up. Do i sound a tad stressed? well, maybe I am, but it's not a personal thing. :) John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have downloaded a lot of files onto here that I want to install to linux. Some of these files are too large to put onto floppy, so they need to be split. I have gzip for dos on win95, also pkzip. The command for pkzip would be pkzip -e0 - a:\bla.zip *.* What is the equivalent for gzip? How would I stich the files back together again? You may consider trying unzip. Chris DESCRIPTION unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The default behavior (with no options) is to extract into the current directory (and subdirectories below it) all files from the specified ZIP archive. A companion program, zip(1L), cre- ates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with archives created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ. [0] - it is doublespaced. bleargh. I cannot remove it for work reasons. bleargh again. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gzip question
i think there's a Unix version of pkzip 2.60 available on the pkzip web site,doesn't know if it run on Linux (had no time to check this when i viewed the site),i'm pretty sure that it also work with gzipped file,the address is: http://www.pkware.com/ Hello I have a non accessible (from linux) win95 partition [0]. I have downloaded a lot of files onto here that I want to install to linux. Some of these files are too large to put onto floppy, so they need to be split. I have gzip for dos on win95, also pkzip. The command for pkzip would be pkzip -e0 - a:\bla.zip *.* What is the equivalent for gzip? How would I stich the files back together again? [0] - it is doublespaced. bleargh. I cannot remove it for work reasons. bleargh again. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
