Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm probably missing something here... but can't you just wait for the > password prompt?
I could, but I don't want to always check my timing. Normally I just type at full speed like foo did, and the password prompt comes up before the password gets in. But sometimes the password prompt takes a moment before it comes up, and some characters of my password get exposed. > about the source... are you sure that the archive is good? Does it have a > .gz or .tgz extension? If it's a .bz2 then you will need to use bunzip2 The filename is shadow_20000902.orig.tar.gz > instead of gunzip. > On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything about > > it, but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is there any > > special package I need to get to be able to decompress the source? I have > > gzip version 1.3.2-3, tar 1.13.25-1, and login 20000902-8. Thanks for any help, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
