Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 14 May 2008 09:51:13 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Onkar <onkar.n.m@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: download source code on Linux
Message-ID:  <F38C919B-82C8-4C78-BA0D-87C012875AA1@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <6933400d0805140938s66e752e7x3da6279b49205b91@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6933400d0805140856o715203d6ic5487c2c4021136a@mail.gmail.com> <20080514163159.GB45838@shepherd> <6933400d0805140938s66e752e7x3da6279b49205b91@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On May 14, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Onkar wrote:
> But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h
> [image: File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa 
> >
> 1392
[ ... ]
>
> what are these ??

They are a .tgz split up into pieces (via split).  You can reassemble  
via:

   cat generic.a* | tar zxf -

...but some people find using CVS/cvsup easier.

-- 
-Chuck




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?F38C919B-82C8-4C78-BA0D-87C012875AA1>