From: greve AT rs1 DOT thch DOT uni-bonn DOT de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: unpacking gnu archives, f2c, tar, man pages
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Mon, 4 May 92 17:14:04 NFT
Status: O

>	3) I found sed at SIMTEL but no user documentation was included. 
>	4) I found a unix-like shell at simtel, and tried to build the f2c
>	   library.
why don't you take the f2c-package from simtel? there is a f2c-exe with
ready-to-use translator and libs (MSC) and f2c-src with lib-sources.

>	The Problem -- I can't dump the xxx.tar.z files.  I've tried djtarx,
>	zoo.exe, compress, and tar from simtel, in various combinations.
You have to unpack it first. the dj-package contains a compress, i think.
You must compress -d the .Z file (capital Z btw.) first and untar it 
afterwards. You cannot use zoo, zip or anything else. They're all different.

If compress complains about foo.tar.Z not found (or even better: foo.z.Z
not found) rename foo.taz to foo.z, compress -d foo and rename it foo.tar
afterwards.

Good luck,

				- Thomas

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