Looks like that might be the problem .... ill go back and download as a bin.
In the old days shar files where always ascii with any bin date uuencoded.
Thanks for the help
john
On 28-Nov-99 Will Koffel wrote:
> At 2:16 PM -0600 11/28/99, John N. Alegre wrote:
>>What gives? Why the shar file anyway? bz2 was ok, gz even better. shar
>>files
>>aren't even compressed????
>
> Well, as I understand it, this is indeed compressed. It would be silly
> not to. The web page described it as a self-extracting zip file, if I
> remember correctly. In addition, having a shell script handle the install
> allows things like environment vars to be set, or library version checking
> to be done, etc. Now, I'm not a member of the blackdown team in any way
> shape or form, but I imagine that they wanted the flexibility that such
> a large, cross-distribution software package deserves.
>
> Just think about Winblows and Mac. When was the last time you downloaded
> a large development environment for Windows and it wasn't in the form
> of an installer? Even the JDK for other platforms comes in the form of an
> installer...why not linux too?
>
> Incidentally, I'm sure one could discover quite a bit by just reading the
> darn shell script. It's probably even commented... I haven't downloaded
> it yet, and given the problems people are having with AMD chips, it's
> unlikely I will for a while, until that gets resolved. I clearly can't
> release a java software product which is only supported on PII chips!
>
> -Will
>
> P.S. Rather than waste time speculating, like I just have, I'd be quite
> interested in a member of the blackdown team letting us know exactly
> what the primary motivation behind the new packaging was.
>
>
>
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