Re: go back to gzip!

1999-04-01 Thread Thomas Koehler
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:19:44PM +0200, Robb Shecter wrote: > > Peter Kovacs wrote: > > > jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.bz2 24457274 > > jdk1.2pre-v1.tar.gz26062044 > > > > Means a 6.1% better compression rate. Is it really that much improvement? If it >was at least 1

Re: rm

1999-03-16 Thread Thomas Koehler
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:08:30PM +0100, Ozer Irfan wrote: > Hello > how delete the content of a directorie with many files ? > > I use rm -rf * > but I have the message : parameter too long > I'm not root. Try this: find . -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \; > Thanks. > > Irfan HTH, Thomas --

Re: Installing JDK 1.2 ?

1999-03-10 Thread Thomas Koehler
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 extensi

Re: .bz2 format?

1999-03-10 Thread Thomas Koehler
Hi, On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:35:50AM -0500, Yirong Li wrote: > > Hi there, > > This may sound stupid, but how do I uncompress a bz2 file? This sounds stupid, because this question has been asked AND answered on this list before (and now, thousands of people STILL ask this question)... 1. RE