>>>> "Dan" == Dan Harkless
<dan-xemacs(a)dilvish.speed.net> writes:
Dan> Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> John,
> Thanks for doing this. It will be a big help. Other than
> suggesting 'zcat < xemacs-21.1.*.tar.gz' | tar xf -',
Dan> Since you can't depend on someone's path not pointing to a
Dan> vendor zcat, which won't understand .gz files, it's better to
Dan> suggest "gzip -c" instead of "zcat". Also, the
"<" is
Hi Dan,
"gunzip -c" will work, for gzip you'll have to add the decompress
switch, so make this "gzip -dc".
Adrian
Dan> superfluous.