Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Read this if you're having trouble unpacking Tcl Message-ID: <7372@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 24 Dec 90 20:55:50 GMT Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Distribution: alt Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 48 Enclosed is the help file for anyone who is having trouble unpacking Tcl. It has been pointed out to me that "cpio" is a SysV-ism. However, "pax" is around at various archives and can read these archives. Most BSD systems seem to already have some way to read cpio archives anyway. You received this file because you had a problem unpacking the Tcl 4.0 archive. This file should help you figure out what went wrong, and possibly identify a piece of it that got corrupted. Note that your editor must not strip trailing blanks or it will corrupt the uuencoded archive. If you have properly stripped the headers and trailers off the 12 parts, they should have the following lengths: -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53281 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.01 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.02 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.03 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.04 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.05 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.06 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.07 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.08 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:02 tcl40.09 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:03 tcl40.10 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 53320 Dec 19 19:03 tcl40.11 -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 46804 Dec 19 19:03 tcl40.12 After you concatenate them together, you should get a 633285-byte file. -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 633285 Dec 19 19:03 uufile after uudecode, tcl40.cpio.Z should be: -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 459619 Dec 19 19:03 tcl40.cpio.Z after "compress -d", tcl40.cpio should be: -rw-r--r-- 1 karl cool 1191424 Dec 19 19:03 tcl40.cpio -- -- uunet!sugar!karl -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018