On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 01:26:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded 1.2 and read the release notes at blackdown. The notes stated
> that installing JDK 1.2 would win the admiration of the blackdown group. I
> can see why, the docs talk about a gzip file but the extension on the file
> that downloads is bz2. Maybe I missed something but the tar zxvf
> jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 won't open the file. Yes this looks like it may be a
> real challenge as it can't be opened on a typical Linux box :-)
It can be opened on a typical Linux box.
> Please forward any clues I missed somewhere down the line.
You missed reading this list for a few days ;)
Get bzip2 and be happy (ftpsearch for bzip2 or get the package for your
linux distribution).
tar Ivxf filename.tar.bz2
or
cat filename.tar.bz2 | bunzip2 | tar xvf -
(second method applies if your tar is too old to know I)
> Regards
> Tony Dean
CU,
Thomas
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