Re: tar

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 21:13:12 CEST


On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:28:14PM -0500, mjohnson@davesworld.net nicely wrote:
> hi.. adventuring further into the land of MU, I was trying to install the free pascal compiler, and the tar utilitly doesn't have the -z option (gzip I assume)... I think I can unpack manually, but I just wanted to know if this was removed for size, or where I can find a "bigger" tar to use, also how to untar to a specified directory.
>

Unpack using pipe:

                # gzip -dc x.tgz | (cd /dest-dir; tar -xvf-)

>
> Mu + free pascal (www.freepascal.org) would make my day :). I don't know if it will even work on my system, but it would be nice to see. perhaps (if it does work) I'll make an FPC addon for MU
>

In the GCC disk there is a Pascal-to-C translator called "p2c". Try it!

Michele

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