Mike,
Look for gunzip (or gzip -d) binary in your /usr/local/bin directory
(or ask your sysadmin).
It's part of GNU's compress tools.
Yehuda.
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:08:43 +0100
> From: "Mike Morrow, SWI, M" <morrowm_at_ecid.cig.mot.com>
> To: fvwm_at_hpc.uh.edu
> Subject: FVWM: gz files
>
> Folks -
>
> How do I uncompress / unzip these tar files.
>
> I'm familiar with compress and tar, but I've never come across *.gz
> files - is this a dos thing ? I know didly about dos (and only a little
> bit more about UNIX !).
>
> sphinx% ls -l
> total 4962
> drwxr-xr-x 3 morrowm sys_dep 512 Mar 31 21:44 dotfile-2.0
> -rw------- 1 morrowm sys_dep 1860222 Mar 31 21:41 dotfile.tar
> -rw------- 1 morrowm sys_dep 654716 Mar 31 22:55 dotfile.tar.gz
> sphinx%
>
> avocet% uname -a
> UNIX_System_V avocet 4.0 R40V4.2 m88k mc88110
> avocet%
>
> sphinx% uname -a
> SunOS sphinx 5.3 Generic_Patch sun4d sparc
> sphinx%
>
> vulture% uname -a
> SunOS vulture 5.3 Generic_101318-69 sun4d sparc
> vulture%
>
> The system we use mounts our home directory from a server that doesn't
> allow you to rlogin into it.
>
> We then use a number of different machines for different applications.
>
> sphinx% mount
> /home/morrowm on phoenix:/home4/phoenix/morrowm read/write/remote on Mon
> Mar 31 19:39:46 1997
>
> I want to have a go at setting up fvwm2 (win95 lookalike) - I just use
> mwm at the moment which is a bit old and ugly - and I've fallen at the
> first hirdle !
>
> Do I need to install anything - I'm just a bog standard Joe without any
> root access.
>
> Any suggestions on a good route for beginners ? There are a number of
> websites out there - I don't know where to start.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mick.
>
> ###########Extract from http://www.imada.ou.dk/~blackie/dotfile/#######
>
> The Dotfile Generator requires Tcl/Tk, but don't let that scare
> you, Tcl/Tk compiles on almost every
> machine running X windows.
>
> Note: that the Dotfile Generator requires at least Tcl 7.4 / Tk
> 4.0. Here's a link to the source files: Tcl 7.4
> and Tk 4.0
>
> And for Linux users, here's a precompiled set for X11R6 of Tcl7.5
> and Tk 4.1
>
> Download the Program
>
> You may download the program from the main site in Denmark, Europe:
> gzipped tar format (650Kb)
> compressed tar format(1.1Mb)
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Received on Mon Mar 31 1997 - 16:14:20 BST