On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:56:06AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:08:08PM +0530, Onkar wrote: > > But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h > > [image: > > File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa> > > 1392 > [...] > > what are these ?? > > Tarballs. > > Grab ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.3-RELEASE/src/ > then to get the files out of, say, scontrib, do something like this: > > % cat scontrib.* | tar -xvzf -
Chuck Swiger's post caused me to relook at mine. There are .inf files in the mix which will cause tar a bit of heartache above. This would be better: % cat scontrib.[ab]* | tar -xvzf - -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
