Python and Computer Algebra Systems --- is it done?
jm7potter at hotmail.com
jm7potter at hotmail.com
Mon May 21 08:39:47 EDT 2001
On Mon, 21 May 2001 10:13:44 +0200, "Mart van de Wege"
<mvdwege at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
>In article <culggtse7omf99c4soalcts2pptph2di6e at 4ax.com>, "Unknown"
><jm7potter at hotmail.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>> I also have something called cln at c:\cyqwin\cln\cln-1.1.tar.gz and
>> ginac at c:\cyqwin\ginac\ginac-0.8.3.tar.bz2.tar (yes! two tars in that
>> one)
>>
>> I also have an animal named pyginac at C:\pyginac\pyginac-0.465.tar.gz.
>>
>>
>> So, how do I unpack tar/bz2/gz ? Suppose cyqwin has the software there
>> somewhere?
><snip>
>
><delurk>
>I don't know much about cygwin, but if it comes with the standard GNU zip
>(gzip/gunzip) or GNU bzip (bzip2/bunzip2), then decompressing a tarball
>is a matter of 'tar xzf <filename>' for a .tar.gz and 'tar xjf
><filename>' for a .tar.bz2.
>
>HTH
>
>Mart
></delurk>
Thanks Mart,
I was able to use tar to unpack 2 out of 3 --- not bad for these sorts
of things.
tar xzf pyginac-0.465.tar.gz choked and told me that the file was not
in gzip format.
The other two files are unpacked.
I guess the file must be corrupted.
I'll try another download.
Regards, Joe
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