Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/04/16/09:30:51
Chirayu Krishnappa wrote:
>
> I looked up the ftp site and found 2 archieves of source code. One was 12K
> and the other >500K. The problem I am facing is that these files are in
> some weird format with extension .tar.gz which is alien to me. All I know
> is zip. Is this the right file for djgpp and how do I uncompress them.
> Also, what is the difference between the big and the small archieve?
.tar.gz is a Unixy style of archiving and compression. DJGPP comes with
a program called 'djtar' that automatically extracts files from this
format, and even uncompresses them on the fly so you don't need to
specifically unzip the file. To simply extract all the files, use
'djtar -x <file>', or the shorter 'djtarx <file>'. Of course, you must
rename it to something legal in DOS, but the actual extension doesn't
matter to djtar.
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* Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,
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* Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens
again.
* It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
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