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- From: afarleig@tdsnet.com (AWFarleigh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Ghostscript fonts & untarring
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 00:08:05 GMT
- Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI
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- Paul Blackburn (chp95pb@sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I`m having some problems untarring ghostscript-fonts-2.6.2.tar
- : I`ve managed to convert the tar.gz to the .tar version. but I keep getting
- : error messages when I try to use any of the many different versions of tar
- : utilities.
- :
- : Has anybody have any ideas how to set up a tar archiver/de-archiver an get
- : it to run successfully?
- :
- :
- : Thanks,
- :
- : Paul Blackburn,
- :
- : Amiga A1200 + 65meg internal HD + Viper II 68030/68882 + 4Meg + Squirrel +
- : 730Meg ext. HD
-
- From my (bad) memory, it seems like the fonts are tar'd with a "." which
- means "current directory" under Unix. The Amiga tar I used didn't deal with
- this situation properly (IMHO), so simply create a directory named ".",
- THEN extract the tar. They will be extracted into the "." directory.
-
- Fred
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