From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) Subject: Re: Where to find ln? Date: 9 Jul 1992 17:18:00 GMT
>I assume this is becouse uncompress has reached the end of the tar file and
>beyond it. My question is - does this affect the extraction of the last
>file? Tar was unable to extract fileutl32.tar after the process had ended,
>but /usr/man1/touch.1 (the last file from the fileutils *.tar.Z file to be
>extracted using the pipe) appears ok.
>
>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.
>
>Thanks for any insights!
I have yet to find a problem with doing it that way. I have JUST
installed (today) Linux 0.96c, GCC 2.2.2, X11v1.1 by rawriting the tar.z
files to diskette and just reading them off the way you mentioned.
X runs great. Now just need to figure out whats wrong with olvwm :< !
Chris Nalley