You just have to mount your floppy and treat it like any other tgz
archive:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /tmp
tar zxf /mnt/floppy/kxicq.tgz
HTH
Flupke
On Wed, 17 May 2000, John Arkoulis wrote:
> OK here is a newbie question.
> I downloaded kxlicq and I want to try it.
> It is on a floppy and off course its tar.gz format.
> I am reading the manual (page290) how to uncompress it but it does not make
> sense to me.
> How do I do it??/
> If it was on my HD it would be easier but I have no idea how to go with the
> files being on a floppy.
>
>
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