On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Rick Green wrote: > What's the full filename of the shapefiles you downloaded? If it's *.tgz > or *.tar.gz, then you can `tar -xzvf <filename> <location> will do it.
Except "tar" is one of those "weird" Unix programs that doesn't require the dash. On many modern systems "ps" is another one of those. So I use "tar xzvf filename.tgz" or "tar xjvf filename.tar.bz2". Some tar implementations can't do gzip or bzip2, so you have to do this instead: "bunzip2 filename.tar.bz2" or "gzip -d filename.tgz", and then "tar xvf filename.tar". It's a bit of a pain sometimes keeping it all straight. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
