Python and Computer Algebra Systems --- is it done?

[Mart van de Wege]

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>

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