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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!bt!btnet!news.easynet.co.uk!newsfeed.easynet.co.uk!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.brunel.ac.uk!strath-cs!str-ccsun!not-for-mail From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I ... ? Date: 14 Nov 1995 15:19:54 -0000 Organization: University of Strathclyde Lines: 28 Message-ID: <48ac2q$2ou@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> References: <47tl6f$uvn@news1.tacoma.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk Steve M. Spiller <steve@microdot.com> wrote: > >The packages, *.tgz, are easy, but I can't find a util to install the >.aa, .ab, etc files. Can anyone help? Thanks! You have to concatenate the files together, pipe them through gzip, then through tar. Something along the lines of; cat thefiles.* | tar -ztf - will show you what files are contained in the archive. From this, you'll have to make an intelligent guess as to where they should go, then install them with cat thefiles.* | tar -zxvf - Of course, this will only drop the files in the (hopefully :) correct place; there may be many configuration options left still to do. For example, I believe X may be installed by using the above method with all the required archives then using the post configuration option of /stand/sysinstall to do the rest. Be careful though! Neil -- Dis dude page aint kept down t'date 'sept when volun- teers wanna maintain it. If ya' find some discrepancy between de dude page and da damn software, please check de Info stash, which be de audo'itative documentashun.