Date: Sat, 2 May 92 16:52 EST
From: HORNE AT EDGE1 DOT PFC DOT MIT DOT EDU
Subject: unpacking gnu archives, f2c, tar, man pages
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status: O


	I've been trying to use the f2c utility on my new 486 (using
	djgpp) and have overflowed my stack.  (The problem isn't
	djgpp-related.)	

	Background -- Heavy VMS, some dos, no unix, but I'm slowly learning.

	1)  The library sources are meant to be 'sh'ed in a unix environment.
	2)  By reading the thing, I can see that utilities echo 
	    (I have it ) and sed are required, and a shell.
	3) I found sed at SIMTEL but no user documentation was included. 
	4) I found a unix-like shell at simtel, and tried to build the f2c
	   library.
	5)  It doesn't work.  I suspect the error (cannot create file)
	    is because the script was written for a machine with non-DOS
	    filename conventions.  I suspect I could modify it to work, but
	    I don't know sed and have no manual.
	6)  Therefore I hied off to mit.ai.prep.edu for the GNU sed, hoping
	    to extract the man page.  (I have cawf from simtel.)

	The Problem -- I can't dump the xxx.tar.z files.  I've tried djtarx,
	zoo.exe, compress, and tar from simtel, in various combinations.
        Could someone give me explicit instructions for unpacking the gnu 
	arcives on a dos machine?
	Is there a collection of man pages for the various utilities stored
	somewhere else?
        
                                        Thanks
					Steve Horne
					horne AT alcvax DOT pfc DOT mit DOT edu