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- this software comes from june.cs.washington.edu in /pub/ntemacs
-
- current versions:
- emacs v19.17
- gzip v1.2.4
- tar v1.11.2
-
- For those unfamiliar with gzip and tar:
-
- Gzip is a compression program, taking as input one file and
- compressing its contents (gunzip reverses the process). Simply use
- "gunzip <file>.gz" to decompress the file.
-
- Tar is an archive program (it's name is a shortened form of "tape
- archive"). To extract the contents of a tar file, use "tar xvf
- <file>.tar". The "f" tells tar that it is handling a file (instead of
- magnetic tape), the "x" tells tar to extract the contents, and "v"
- tells tar to be verbose and report everything it extracts.
-
- Since gzip works on one file, the typical process is to tar a
- directory tree and then gzip it; unpackaging it is the reverse
- process (using gzunip).
-
- Note that, when these packages are opened, you must do so on a non-FAT
- filesystem (HPFS or NTFS).
-
- -geoff
-
- (voelker@cs.washington.edu)
-
- Thanks to Drew Bliss for the port of GNU Tar, and Benn Schreiber
- for providing the DEC Alpha AXP executables.
-