Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
Mensanator wrote: Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a trial version of Winzip which took care of that. Right. The proper command is: tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2 The recommended GUI for all things archival on Windows I think has to be 7zip. And it's not cursed shareware either. Open source. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
En Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:10:28 -0300, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com escribió: I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in the Windows install). So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy? Are you asking how to decompress a .bz2 file? Instead of cygwin, I prefer native executables. You can get one from: http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html I think you're interested in the Demo\turtle directory. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
On Mar 30, 6:34 pm, Gabriel Genellina gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: En Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:10:28 -0300, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com escribió: I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in the Windows install). So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy? Are you asking how to decompress a .bz2 file? Instead of cygwin, I prefer native executables. You can get one from:http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html I think you're interested in the Demo\turtle directory. -- Gabriel Genellina Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a trial version of Winzip which took care of that. Anyway, I got what I was looking for, so thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
On Mar 30, 7:10 pm, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in the Windows install). So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy? I'm not familiar with the Turtle Graphics Demo so I'm just guessing at the name of the tarball. You'll use something like this: bzip2 -cd TurtleGraphicsDemo.tar.gz | tar xf - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
On Mar 30, 8:49�pm, drobi...@gmail.com drobi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 30, 7:10�pm, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in the Windows install). So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball. I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities. What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy? I'm not familiar with the Turtle Graphics Demo so I'm just guessing at the name of the tarball. I don't know if there's a seperate enity as such. What I got was a directory within the Python source Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2 You'll use something like this: bzip2 -cd TurtleGraphicsDemo.tar.gz | tar xf - Thanks, I'll try that next time (when the Winzip 45 day trial expires). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: unpack the source tarball on Windows
On Mar 31, 2:25 pm, Mensanator mensana...@aol.com wrote: Thanks, I'll try that next time (when the Winzip 45 day trial expires). Better still, grab the freec 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/ Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR * Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
