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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A tale of terrible .tar troubles...
Date: 02 Jun 1996 09:30:56 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: jimbo's message of Sun, 26 May 1996 02:56:04 PST
In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.960526103708.414A-100000@jesus.serv.net>
jimbo <root@jesus.serv.net> writes:
* Ok, I'm new at all this...just got my X-Windows and PPP running, and was
* looking forward to installing some software that's not in package format
* (i.e. Netscape), and it gunzips just fine, but whenever I try to do a tar
* -x command, it throws this at me:
Jesus, do you know there's a netscape "port"? You can get it from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/www/netscape3
(or "netscape2" if you want the stable version without Java support).
Satoshi