On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:32:20PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: :i downloaded what i think is the same driver (3c90x), but the thing is, it :comes as a tar file, and when i move it (via floppy) from my windows :machine to the linux box, the filename truncates. of course, i could :just download the driver directly to the linux machine, BUT I CAN'T GET :THE CARD INSTALLED! any way around that?
you can just rename the file using `mv <old.file.name> <new.file.name>`, asssuming it's a .tgz (or .tar.gz) file: $ tar -xzvf file.tgz will open it up (x = extract, z = zipped, v = verbose, f = file) -Jon
