Hi Matthew,
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From: "Matthew P. Marino" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an
ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into
a
contiguous data base file. This is for portability and
hi.
"GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and
can restore individual files from the archive."
gnu tar differs from the sun version of tar that comes with solaris.
type tar --help to see which tar you have.
if you need the gnu version, you can get it from
You've got a long way to go. "tar" is short for tape archive. It is an
ancient unix utility that takes directory and file data and builds it into a
contiguous data base file. This is for portability and manageability. You should
have to get past "gzip" before you get to "tar". gzip is a gnu
Simon,
Take a look at www.sunfreeware.com. Go to their Downloading/Installation
section (left panel) and grab the pkg-get script. Use pkgadd to install
it. (as root: pkgadd -d BOLTpget.pkg ). Then add /usr/local/bin to your
path. (PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin; export PATH)
Use pkg-get to
