Thanks. I left out the f. This seems to have worked on my Mac. $ cd downloads $ tar -xf gnuplot-4.4.4.tar
But now the lack of the xcode on this computer must be the problem I am up against now. I'll continue when I return home. Maybe I'll have more questions then. OR... I have downloaded and unpacked a binary from the link below. It produced the following file. http://www.ncftp.com/download/ drwxr-xr-x@ 6 brianschott staff 204 Sep 6 2006 gnuplot+png-4.0.0 -rw-r--r--@ 1 brianschott staff 1474560 Nov 24 20:19 gnuplot+png-4.0.0-macosx10.4-intel-export.tar What can I try now, please? On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > Brian, > In what context is this tar question? gnuplot install on the Mac? In which > case you want to do something like: > > ...$ tar -xf ..../gnuplot-4.4.4.tar > > This assumes the mac download took care of the .gz suffix. If your file is > still called .tar.gz you'll need: > > ...$ tar -xzf ..../gnuplot-4.4.4.tar > > The mac build for me went completely smoothly. It assumes you have already > installed xcode from your distribution dvds. If you don't have xcode > installed you need to do a lot more. > > /Eric > > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Could someone supply the tar -x command and options to unpack for me, >> please? >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- (B=) <-----my sig Brian Schott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
