Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:05:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jkirwan@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: Accessing the source without installing first. Message-ID: <199609231105.LAA02193@CoDe.CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <199609220944.CAA20549@dfw-ix6.ix.netcom.com> from "Jon Kirwan" at Sep 22, 96 02:45:08 am
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> > Hi. I'd like to study the source code for FreeBSD, but it seems that > the source isn't readily available unless the operating system is > installed first. I'm not really interested in running it, just yet, > but I am very interested in looking at the kernel code right now. The > 'src' directory seems filled with sections of archive files, but I > don't apparently have the tools handy to read them (I tried the > sbase.aa file, for example.) Any suggestions about transferring the > source code without having to install the O/S? You need a Unix-like opsys, with gunzip (the other softwares are standard): cat sbase.aa sbase.ab ... | gunzip | tar xvf - (or cat sbase.?? | gunzip | tar xvf - ) Well, you can use it on DOS, if you have gzip and a tar or pax installed: copy sbase.aa + sbase.ab + ... tempfile.gz gzip -d tempfile.gz tar xvf tempfile - or pax -r -f tempfile Or on any other OpSys with a gzip and a tar/pax-like archiver. -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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