From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Where to find ln? Date: 7 Jul 1992 00:16:30 GMT
In article <1992Jul06.200514.4087@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>
>The new 0.95c distribution appears to be missing the 'ln'
>command (and presumably others). Is there a list of
>"supplemental" sources and binaries for standard stuff
>like this. Looking through the stuff at tsx-11 I found
>nothing that looked like it might contain the source or
>binaries for this command.
Yep, 'ln' is accidently MIA on the 0.96 root disk. It is avilable as
part of the GNU fileutilities, which have been uploaded in source and
binary form to tsx-11 by Rik Faith.
>Since it is used for the installation of mtools (needed to
>read *.tar.Z files now that tar doesn't recognize -z) and
>gcc 2.2.2 I kinda need to find it.
I don't follow you here - you don't need mtools to read *.tar.Z files,
simply do this:
uncompress < foo.tar.Z | tar zv
Things will work fine from there. You can also redirect a device
(like /dev/fd0) into uncompress if you want.
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