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Re: UNIX newbie question
- Subject: Re: UNIX newbie question
- From: mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 22:43:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Ministry of Love - Room 101
- References: <3289hf$1jh@crl3.crl.com> <328co0$22s@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
stuckey@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Anthony J. Stuckey) wrote:
>joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) writes:
>>The brief instructions provided me:
>>"ftp download the archive...
>>unpack it with: zcat jpeg4src.tar.Z | tar xvf -
>>It should make a subdirectory, 'cd' into that directory.
> The assumption that ZCAT exists may very well not be valid. ZCAT isn't
>a standard unix command, but it is quite common. If your sysadmin wrote
>this to you, then it's probably installed on your system.
If zcat isn't working, first make sure it's really not on your system- it
simply might not be in your command path. Instead of using zcat, you can
uncompress jpeg4src.tar.Z
tar xvf jpeg4src.tar
comp.unix.questions anyone?