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Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3


From: Stephen Leake
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3
Date: 27 May 2003 14:35:58 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

address@hidden writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to install Emacs 21.3 and I am having problems uncompressing
> the archive, I have done that several times before and I can't figure out
> what I am doing wrong this time.  I have dowloaded the full binary
> distribution and the latest version of the required utilities and here is
> what I am doing:
> 
> $ gunzip-1.2.4-i386 -c emacs.21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz | tar-1.11.2a xvf-
> c:\Emacs\tar-1.11.2a.exe: f argument missing
> c:\Emacs\tar-1.11.2a.exe: Unknown option.  Use 'c:\Emacs\tar-1.11.2a.exe
> --help' for a complete list of options.
> stdout: Broken pipe
> stdout: Broken pipe

I haven't used that version of tar, but with Cygwin tar I do:

$ tar zxf emacs.21.3-fullbin-i386.tar.gz

The 'z' means 'gunzip first'. Much simpler!

-- 
-- Stephe





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