Did you use GNU tar as indicated here:
http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-ant/release/v1.3/bin/
?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuzeau Pascal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:38 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: How Install Ant ?
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> My Unix is under Sun-sparc version 5.6.
> I don't know how to know the version of tar, but what I know
> it's it was
> installed in july 1997 and have the size of 52620 bytes. ( I
> think it's
> an old version, no ?).
>
> I'll try the new version as you told me.
>
> What do you mean by, I've'nt to run the build.sh. Do I have to do an
> other way?
>
> Sincerily
> PS
>
> Stefan Bodewig wrote:
>
> > Samuzeau Pascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm new in using ant and in unix environment.
> >
> > Which Unix?
> >
> > > Yesterday, I've tried, by 3 times, to download the gz file of ant
> > > 1.3.
> > >
> > > I did an unzip first and a tar xvf which this file.
> >
> > gunzip, yes?
> >
> > Which version of tar are you using? The release files can only be
> > extracted using GNU tar, as it contains files with names longer than
> > 100 chars (and there is no compatible way to store them).
> >
> > If you don't have GNU tar, please try the zip archive of
> the release.
> > This can be extracted using "jar xf".
> >
> > > I've read the install.html, and I saw thatt I've to run the
> > > build.sh.
> >
> > Not really - this is for building/installing from sources.
> >
> > Stefan
>
