From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: Where to find ln? Date: 7 Jul 1992 02:37:42 GMT
In article <1992Jul07.015409.15878@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle) writes:
>In article <1992Jul7.001630.8308@muddcs.claremont.edu> jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>>
>> [my comments on being able to extract *.tar.Z files removed]
>>
>>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.
>
>First, many, many thanks for all the input on my two questions.
>Changing ownership of passwd to root:root did indeed fix things.
>
>I was also (moderately) successful in extracting a *.tar.Z file
>from /dev/fd0 (whos audodetect now works for me! yeah!) using
>the following command
>
># uncompress < /dev/fd0 | tar xv
>
>however, the extraction ended with the message:
>
>"broken pipe"
Right, that's normal with that method - I don't know the exact cause,
but I do know it hasn't affected the bunches of files I've untarred
using that method.
>I then tried the following, to creat a *.tar file on my hard drive:
>
># uncompress < /dev/fd0 > fileutl32.tar
>
>which resulted in ...
>
>general protection: 0000
>EIP: 000f:03C10855
>EFLAGS: 00013206
>fs: 0017
>base: 1C000000, limit 04000000
>stack: 00000400 00000001 03C288F4 03BFFB94
>Pid: 34, process nr: 7
>89 38 83 7d 00 00 74 09 8b 45
>segmentation fault (core dumped)
This is pretty nasty, and I'm not sure what would cause that. Anyone
else?
>I am wondering because I plan on using this approach for (re)installing
>GCC 2.2.2 and installing x-windows, and don't want to end up posting
>inane questions about problems resulting from faulty file extractions.
I didn't have any problems getting GCC 2.2.2 on my system by using the
pipe into tar, so that may be your best bet.
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