Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-19 Thread Brendan Pratt
Hi Matthew, - Original Message - 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

getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Simon Chan
Hi Everybody! Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have the O'Reilly books on Perl DBI and Mysql, msql. My question is this: I am trying to install mysql on sparc sun solaris 2.7 machine. I found a binary version in the downloads page of mysql.com (is is called Sun Solaris

RE: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Ravi Raman
et it from www.sunfreeware.com hth. -ravi -Original Message- From: Simon Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: getting started...the hardest part Hi Everybody! Just starting to teach myself MySql and databases. I have th

Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew P. Marino
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

Re: getting started...the hardest part

2001-04-18 Thread Duncan Watson
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