[linrad] Re: Linux distributions

[Joe Fitzgerald <alum.wpi.edu; jfitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

richard wrote:

> Well the first thing you get from downloading this tar ball is :-
> [root@xxxxx Download]# tar -zxvf svgalib-1.4.3
> tar: svgalib-1.4.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Richard:

I expect you would have some file extension like *.tar.gz  Perhaps you 
mistyped it? 

BTW there is a nice feature in most distributions called "tab 
completion" ... type tar xfvz svga<TAB> and if the only file in your 
current working directory is svgalib-1.4.3.tar.gz , it will finish the 
name for you.  if nothing completes, hit tab again at it will show all 
the available options.  This feature keeps me sane.  It is so good that 
the "innovators" at Microsoft added it to XP!

I'll spare you the admonition not to untar and compile while logged in 
as root until another day.

-Joe KM1P



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