Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Torrie
Mensanator wrote: > Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a > trial version of Winzip which took care of that. Right. The proper command is: tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2 The recommended GUI for all things archival on Windows I think has to be 7zip. And it's not cursed sharewa

Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-30 Thread alex23
On Mar 31, 2:25 pm, Mensanator wrote: > Thanks, I'll try that next time (when the Winzip 45 day > trial expires). Better still, grab the freec 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR * Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB,

Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-30 Thread Mensanator
On Mar 30, 8:49�pm, "drobi...@gmail.com" wrote: > On Mar 30, 7:10�pm, Mensanator wrote: > > > I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in > > the Windows install). > > > So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. > > > I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the nee

Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-30 Thread drobi...@gmail.com
On Mar 30, 7:10 pm, Mensanator wrote: > I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in > the Windows install). > > So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. > > I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. > > What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to

Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-30 Thread Mensanator
On Mar 30, 6:34 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" wrote: > En Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:10:28 -0300, Mensanator   > escribió: > > > I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in > > the Windows install). > > > So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. > > > I've got Cygwin installed and

Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows

2009-03-30 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:10:28 -0300, Mensanator escribió: I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in the Windows install). So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. What would I type at the Cygwin