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07-09-2001, 05:41 PM
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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Lx (Portugal)
Distribution: Mandrake workstation8.0,red hat 7.2 , peanut linux
Posts: 134
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help whit tar.gz
i have download free-1.6.tar.gz i have win. 98 se what should i do to open this file, to intall it ?
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07-09-2001, 06:01 PM
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Registered: May 2001
Location: Bristol, UK
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora, RHES
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You need to open the file under Windows yeah? If thats the case then just use WinZip. Under linux use
Code:
tar xvfz free-1.6.tar.gz
HTH
Jamie... |
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07-11-2001, 10:26 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Cape Cod, MA
Distribution: Redhat 6.2/7.2 & FreeBSD 4.4
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or winrar or winace (not 100% sure on that last one)
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07-12-2001, 02:18 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Lx (Portugal)
Distribution: Mandrake workstation8.0,red hat 7.2 , peanut linux
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thanks for your help BrianG
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