Aha! There's the info I needed!
You can get a prebuilt GNUtar from www.sunfreeware.com. Just go to that site, and on the righthand side of the display, there will be a list of the various versions of Solaris (Sparc or Intel, and the various release numbers). Choose the one you need, and the list of programs below that will change to the current list for your platform. Then look in the lower list for a program called something like 'tar-1.13.19', which is the GNU tar program. Click on the program, and you will be brought to a screen that gives you a choice of the prebuilt package (usually to be installed in /usr/local), or the source code in a g-zipped tar file. You will need gzip to uncompress these files. Solaris 8 has this by default, but you may need to download that first for earlier versions of Solaris. It's an excellent program to have anyway, as many files on the net are g-zipped (GNU-zip). You can also get that program from www.sunfreeware.com, and I think it's not compressed, or it's a '.Z' file, which you can uncompress with the 'uncompress' program that comes with Solaris). The prebuilt file that results when you uncompress it is a Solaris 'package' stream file. You use the pkgadd program to install the program and it's man pages on your system. See the man page for the details on 'pkgadd'. Basically, you tell pkgadd to use this file as a package, and it will put all the programs in the right place. But I think this may require that you are the 'root' user, depending on how your system permissions are setup for /usr/local/bin, and for /usr/share/man. If you are worried about getting this right, and have an email program that will take fairly large attachments, I would be glad to send you a GNUtar executable for Solaris. As a compressed file (gtar.Z), it takes about 115Kbytes. Most mailer programs will allow that size attachment. All you need to do to use that, is to run the 'uncompress' program on it. You type 'uncompress gtar', without the .Z extension, and it will leave you with a file called gtar. You then need to insure that it has execute permissions, and you are set to go. It uses the same switches as the Solaris tar (plus it has some new ones for features that are not in Solars tar), so you can just use it right away. The man pages are available on the web if you need them. Let me know what's best. If you can do the package-add yourself, great. If you want the compressed program, I can send it right away, as I have it ready for you. Regards, --Carl "Altenau, Maureen D CECOM RDEC C2D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/04/2001 12:37:10 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: XercesDef.hpp Carl, Another quick question. Assuming that I need to untar the GNU tar with the Solaris tar, how do I install it? Do I need to run runConfigure and make install? Thanks, Maureen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XercesDef.hpp 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/03/2001 12:57:52 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: XercesDef.hpp 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. 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