Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/03/11:37:17
Eli wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
> > Download gzip from the v2gnu directory of the distribution, then run:
> >
> > gzip -d XXXXX.tar.gz
> >
> > you'll get XXXXX.tar
> >
> > Then use djtar -xvf XXXXX.tar and you'll get the directory structure unpacked.
> >
> > There are several ways to do that, that's the one that give me the best
> > results.
>
> There's a better way. You can say "djtar -x XXXX.tgz" without
> uncompressing with gzip, because djtar knows how to uncompress on the fly.
> This way, you save the disk space for the intermediate .tar file.
Last time I tried it I got some strange fail. Was with the sources of some game
... you know ;-).
>
> And btw, djtar doesn't accept the -v and -f options, as far as I remember.
But doesn't report any bad thing and I use it in this way under Unix.
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