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Dear Friends,

I am a young unix administrator in a serve-client programmers
development group.

I downloaded some utilities for the solaris platform. This files are all
with the extension .gz which I guess is gzip

I downloaded teh gzip-1_2.4 file. Well the file command tells me it is
commands text type.

Well, I don't know how to install it. I tried to tar it but nothing.

Could you please tell me:

1. Do I need gzip to open the .gz files ? If so

2. From what URl can I get gzip for solaris ?

3. How can I install gzip what format will it be and what command I need
to install it.

Please all your help is very appreciated. Excuse me if I was not so
clear. Please feel free to ask me any further questions.

Thank you very much, have a happy holiday,

Mario Desiderio

Quote:>I downloaded teh gzip-1_2.4 file. Well the file command tells me it is
>commands text type.

#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then unpack
# it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file".  To overwrite existing
# files, type "sh file -c".  You can also feed this as standard input via
# unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g..  If this archive is complete, you
# will see the following message at the end:
#               "End of shell archive."

If you downloaded gzip-1.2.4.tar, it's a tar file.  You can extract the
files using the tar command:

tar xvf gzip-1.2.4.tar

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Quote:>I downloaded some utilities for the solaris platform. This files are all
>with the extension .gz which I guess is gzip

Quote:>I downloaded teh gzip-1_2.4 file. Well the file command tells me it is
>commands text type.

>Well, I don't know how to install it. I tried to tar it but nothing.

>Could you please tell me:

>1. Do I need gzip to open the .gz files ? If so

Quote:>2. From what URl can I get gzip for solaris ?

Quote:>3. How can I install gzip what format will it be and what command I need
>to install it.

Quote:>Please all your help is very appreciated. Excuse me if I was not so
>clear. Please feel free to ask me any further questions.

Quote:>Thank you very much, have a happy holiday,

>Mario Desiderio

If you are getting files from http://sunfreeware.com, then make sure to
read http://sunfreeware.com/download.html and faq.html.   These are also
on links on the pages above.  If you are using Solaris 2.6. gzip and other
programs are on http://sunfreeware.com/solaris_2.6.html.  If you have problems
not addressed by the above pages, email me.

Steve Christensen

Quote:>2. From what URl can I get gzip for solaris ?

Quote:>3. How can I install gzip what format will it be and what command I need
>to install it.

/usr/local/bin/gzip  filename   # to compress

/usr/local/bin/gzip -d  filename  # to uncompress

I hope this helps.

Waqar

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:14:46 +0100, Mario Desiderio

             sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/

After you install GNU tar, you can use the following shortcut for
extracting tar.gz files:

    $ tar -zxf helloworld.tar.gz

This way you don't have to alias anything, or use gzip and tar both
for extracting .tar.gz files.

Hope this helped a tad.

When you ftped the file, did you use the -b switch?  If you didn't, you'll
have to ftp it again.  By default, the ftp client uses -a (ascii)
conversion.

Hope this helps.

        : On Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:14:46 +0100, Mario Desiderio
:
: >Dear Friends,
: >
: >I am a young unix administrator in a serve-client programmers
: >development group.
: >
: >I downloaded some utilities for the solaris platform. This files are all
: >with the extension .gz which I guess is gzip
: >
: >I downloaded teh gzip-1_2.4 file. Well the file command tells me it is
: >commands text type.
: >
: >Well, I don't know how to install it. I tried to tar it but nothing.
: >
: >Could you please tell me:
: >
: >1. Do I need gzip to open the .gz files ? If so
: >
: >2. From what URl can I get gzip for solaris ?
: >
: >3. How can I install gzip what format will it be and what command I need
: >to install it.
: >
: >Please all your help is very appreciated. Excuse me if I was not so
: >clear. Please feel free to ask me any further questions.
: >
: >Thank you very much, have a happy holiday,
: >
: >
: >Mario Desiderio
:
:
: I recommend getting GNU gzip-1.2.4 and getting GNU tar-1.12.  You can
: obtain both of these programs via FTP at:
:
:              sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/
:
: After you install GNU tar, you can use the following shortcut for
: extracting tar.gz files:
:
:     $ tar -zxf helloworld.tar.gz
:
: This way you don't have to alias anything, or use gzip and tar both
: for extracting .tar.gz files.
:
:
: Hope this helped a tad.
:

Quote:>: >I downloaded teh gzip-1_2.4 file. Well the file command tells me it is
>: >commands text type.
>: >
>: >Well, I don't know how to install it. I tried to tar it but nothing.

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