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Date:      Thu, 2 Nov 1995 22:31:20 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Getting kernel source code
Message-ID:  <199511022131.WAA05057@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.91.951102093157.13978G-100000@ryu.communique.net> from "Raul Zighelboim" at Nov 2, 95 09:34:08 am

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As Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> 
> After doing that I try to untar/unzip the files, and I get a 'this is not
> a gzip file' message.  How do I expand the source files ?

This is becoming a FAQ...

cd /usr/src
cat /where/the/ssys/lives/ssys.* | gzip -d -c | tar -xvf -

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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