From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 12:17:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15377 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:17:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15360 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:17:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA22342; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:11 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199803262016.OAA22342@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: extracting the source code To: grogers@astrocorp.com (Glenn Rogers) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 14:16:11 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980326191214.00697ea8@astrocorp.com> from Glenn Rogers at "Mar 26, 98 01:12:14 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Glenn Rogers said: > I have purchased the CD from Walnut Creek of FreeBSD release 2.2.5. > > I want to extract the source code from the files in \src. > > I do not want to install FreeBSD, I just want the source code. > > Can you give me the command to extract the source from the file > > 'ssys.ab' for example. cat ssys.?? |tar -zxvf - --unlink I think. -- "Criminal Lawyer" is a redundancy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message