Hi, Maureen.

Sure, I will help in any way that I can. But I need to know what OS you are
running. Your post didn't say, and you can probably just grab the
precompiled program for your OS, and stick it in the bin directory. If you
don't have permission to do that, or /usr/local/bin (or some other
permissable place that user-executables are allowed), you can even just run
it from your home directory. I've often done that in a pinch at a
customer's site.

Sun, for instance, as a site called www.sunfreeware.com, which has all
sorts of precompiled software available for free, including the GNUtar
program. They take special care to compiler a version for each version of
the OS, so that you can be sure what you download will work on your
particular machine.

If you are running a Sun box, that's the place to go, as they support HTTP
downloads. If you are stuck, and your mail program will accept large
attachments, I can always download the program for you, and email to you. I
have a lot of the GNUtar versions, because I port software to a lot of
platforms, and have Sun, IBM, HP, and Linux versions of almost everything
you might need.

Let me know what your platform is, and if you need help getting the file.

Regards,
--Carl





"Altenau, Maureen D CECOM RDEC C2D"
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Carl,

Can you give me the address of where I can download the GNU tar?  I work
for
the government and since the attacks we are unable to access any ftp sites.
(Part of the heightened security.)  Therefore, I cannot go directly to the
gnu.org site.  I am assuming that this file will be zipped and tarred also.
Can I use the system tar to untar the gnu tar utility?

Thanks,
Maureen

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Maureen,

It's possible that you have been bit by the dreaded GNUtar bug ;-)

The tar files are created with GNU tar, which is not compatible with
the various native tar programs supplied with UNIX systems. In order
to correctly un-tar  the distribution files, you _MUST_ use GNU tar,
not the local versions installed by the OS.

This is one of the first questions in the Xerces FAQ list, but almost
no-one reads it. I also found this problem and complained about it
over a year ago, and found that it was addressed in the FAQ.

Grab GNU tar from any GNU mirror site, or freeware site that handles
your OS. Then just untar the file again, and it will fix all the problems.

This problem occurs because there is no standard on how to handle
very long paths in the tar format. Gnu does it one way, and almost
every other OS does something different. Since GNU is available for
every system, it was a good compromise that works everywhere.

Now if we could just get people to read the FAQ....

All the best,
--Carl





"Altenau, Maureen D CECOM RDEC C2D"
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The DOM_xxxx.hpp files located in the DOM include directory include the
file
util/XercesDefs.hpp.  Can someone tell me where I can get this file.  It
was
not in the binary tar file.

Thanks,
Maureen

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