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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!
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-- Stephe
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- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, Jason Rumney, 2003/05/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, friedman_hill ernest j, 2003/05/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, Jason Rumney, 2003/05/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, friedman_hill ernest j, 2003/05/27
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, Jason Rumney, 2003/05/28
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, Richard M. Heiberger, 2003/05/29
- Re: [h-e-w] Installing Emacs 21.3, Dr Francis J. Wright, 2003/05/30