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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 -> current help sought Date: 2 Jun 1994 19:35:34 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2slca6$jrn@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <2s01vs$o1b@masala.cc.uh.edu> <2sejqb$844@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu In article <2sejqb$844@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au>, Geoff Lamb <gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au> wrote: >> 3) Installng the Current NetBSD binaries: >> # get the binaries from arch/i386 directory >> umask 022 >> gzip -dc bin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar xvf - ) >> .... etc. > >What is wrong with using "tar zxvf bin.tar.gz" > >The "z" option on gnu's tar does an automatic "ungzip" There is nothing wrong with the z option. However, you have to consider about your working directory and installation directory. -- ____ ____ ____ ______________________________________ (__) _________________ | | | | | | W. Woody Jin (wjin@cs.uh.edu) (oo) Moo... | | | |__| | Bovinetic Algorithm Design o=======\/ I'm a Cow Lover. | | | | Dept. of Cowmooputer Science / | || My wife was born \ |---| |--| | University of Houston * ||w---|| in Cow year. Mooo \____/|__| |__| ________________________________^^ ^^_____________________ % nohup cat *flames* >& /dev/bull &