On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:28:00PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/cross-install.Z > > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/native-install.Z > > > * alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/dpkg-hurd.Z > > > > > > My scripts are not compressed, especially not with a non-free compression > > > algorithm! > > > > > > Same for this one: > > > ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnu-0.2/grub-boot.image.Z > > > > According to my sunsite mirror they are....strange. They don't appear to > > be compressed on the original site tho - perhaps the sunsite mirroring > > program compresses scripts by default? > > Maybe it supports compression on the fly? Can you access the files without > the suffix, too?
No. I have sunsite NFS-mounted, and trying to do anything with foo (for foo.Z above) gets a no such file or directory error > > > "Eventually, you will get a prompt. First, get that nice Bourne again > > > shell: > > > bash" > > > > > > Why? The prompt already is a bash shell. > > > > Ah. Last time I single-user booted I got sh. Is that bash in disguise, or > > am I just out of date (slink CDs are taking up lots of time atm)? > > sh is bash in disguise :) It's a symlink. On a Debian system, policy says > that sh must be a link to any POSIX shell. Currently, there is only bash and > probably ash. However, if you use bash specific features in your shell, you > should start it with "#!/bin/bash" and not "#!/bin/sh". OK. I've corrected the guide. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
