April 1997
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
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FTP
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%ftp ftp.oreilly.comConnected to ftp.oreilly.com. 220 FTP server (Version 6.21 Tue Mar 10 22:09:55 EST 1992) ready. Name (ftp.oreilly.com:yourname):anonymous331 Guest login ok, send domain style e-mail address as password. Password:yourname@yourhost.com(use your user name and host here)230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp>cd /published/oreilly/nutshell/emacs_extensions250 CWD command successful. ftp>binary(Very important! You must specify binary transfer for gzipped files.)200 Type set to I. ftp>get examples.tar.gz200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection forexamples.tar.gz.226 Transfer complete. ftp>quit221 Goodbye. %
The file is a gzipped tar archive; extract the files from the archive by typing:
% gzip -dc examples.tar.gz | tar -xvf -System V systems require the following tar command instead:
% gzip -dc examples.tar.gz | tar -xvof -If gzip is not available on your system, use separate uncompress and tar commands.
%uncompress examples.tar.gz%tar xvf examples.tar
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