Re: [Closed REQ 5370]: Help

["Tamara Munzner" <munzner>]

What we distribute is in "compressed tar" format. Compression makes a
file smaller so that it takes less time to transmit, and tar is a way
of packing up multiple files into a single file. So you need to first
uncompress, then unpack using tar. There are two ways to
compress/uncompress, one with the Unix "compress" utility, one with
the GNU "gzip/gunzip" utilities. Use the former if the filename ends
in ".Z", the latter if it ends in ".gz". I presume that since you ask
about the Sun patch, you're on a Sun workstation. You just need to do
the same sort of thing. The following commands should do what you
want:

If the file ends in .Z (note that "|" is a vertical line, not a
colon):

uncompress geomview-sun4.tar.Z | tar xvf -
uncompress geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar.Z | tar xvf -

If the file ends in .gz:

gunzip geomview-sun4.tar.Z 
tar xvf geomview-sun4.tar
gunzip geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar.Z
tar xvf geomview-1.5.0-sun4-patch1.tar

Hope thie helps,
Tamara Munzner		The Geometry Center	     ((555) 555-5555
munzner at geom.umn.edu	http://www.geom.umn.edu/~munzner