From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 4 11:40:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA09206 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:40:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA09199 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from durang@u.washington.edu) Received: from goodall2.u.washington.edu (durang@goodall2.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.168]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id LAA18612; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:40:46 -0800 Received: from localhost (durang@localhost) by goodall2.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id LAA24206; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:40:45 -0800 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" To: ira miller cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: un-tarring a file? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, ira miller wrote: > Sorry to bother everyone again, but I have followed the instructions > in the man pages and can't get this to work. I downloaded netscape > navigator standalone, the file name is: > > navigator-v408-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar > > It was also with a .gz, but I was able to unzip that with the gunzip > utility, following the instructions. I've always had an easy time installing the navigator by putting that file, still gzipped into /usr/ports/distfiles, and then going to /usr/ports/www/netscape4 and doing "make install" Has something changed? Has it become more complicated? By the way, the newbies list isn't for tech-support-type questions, even if they are newbie questions. freebsd-newbies is for discussion. It seems a little counter-intuitive. I immediately thought to myself, upon seeing that there was a newbie list, "Oh, great, a place to ask those everyone-knows-but-me dipshit newbie questions." But those of us who subscribe to this list get a regular reminder that we aren't supposed to let it become so. Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message