Hi Jan, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> install from source works ... love dosemu ... developers are helpful > & responsive ... one of the best projects in the free software world. I agree, the project is in good shape. > like to have dosemu available to dummies, a.k.a. ordinary users. Good point. > I tried out the binary install. I've never done that. > This works. BTW why -zxf instead of vzxf? The v option gives some > reassuring feedback to users. Actually I dislike the verbosity, but 'v' option or not, the tar manpage on my boxes says: "The first argument to tar must be one of the options: Acdrtux, followed by any optional functions." So I think you should say "tar xvzf" not "tar vzxf". I'm sure that there are versions of tar that will cope with either, although I'm not sure that all of them will understand the 'z' option. The leading '-' may or may not be optional. On balance, for newbies it might be better to split up the extraction into separate decompress and untar steps. > The same, of course, happens if you do NOT create a subdir called > mydos. The dosemu-bin and dosemu-freedos packages can also just be > unpacked from ~ (where the Ordinary User normally downloads it), > with all the stuff ending up in ~/dosemu. So why mydos? I made similar points back in March last year about the source install. Looks like the binary install was overlooked. > Can't we *at the very least* provide some instructions which, if > followed to the letter, make the software work? Isn't this worth > some effort? I'm sure it is. Sounds like time to send in a documentation patch. I tell you what. You write it, I'll test it. Deal? 73, Ged. PS: Do you always send UTF-8? I had to edit the apostrophes in that last sentence of yours... :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
