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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!uwvax!sol23.cs.wisc.edu!tuc From: tuc@sol23.cs.wisc.edu (Brian Cole) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: MacBSD X11R6 distribution Date: 9 Apr 1996 03:46:10 GMT Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4kcmi2$ftv@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sol23.cs.wisc.edu Howdy, I had been having trouble with the "X.11Mar95.tgz" tarball for a while. Helpful people on the net say they haven't had trouble installing it from within MacBSD, but (for reasons I won't go into here) I needed to be able to it from MacOS with the Installer. The problem is, the Installer refuses to recognize the ".tgz". I finally got it to work by using DropStuffWithExpanderEnhancer to gunzip it into a plain ".tar" file. (This required more than 27MB of free disk space, which is why it took me a while.) The Installer was happy to install the gunzipped file. The reason I bring this up is because the "README.11Mar95" file's instructions say that it should work without gunzipping it first. All I can guess is that the tar files was gzipped in some way that, though still legal and able to be gunzipped by most gunzipping utilities, the MacBSD Installer can't handles. Perhaps someone should gunzip the files and re-gzip it for the archives so other people don't have the same problems I did. Why s/he is at it, s/he can incorporate the the newer X server binaries that now lie in the "Xmacbsd.950912" and "Xmacbsd-960127.tar.gz" files. (Am I right in thinking the 96/01/27 server binary completely supercedes the 95/09/12 one?) I'd be willing to re-gzip the tar file (with the original server binary) and ftp it somewhere, but someone would have to tell me which MacOS gzipping utility the Installer can understand. brian -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______ _____ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian A. Cole |_ _ | | ___| Visit Brian's Repository of U. Wisconsin | | | |__| |___ Macintosh Information at tuc@cs.wisc.edu |_| |__________| http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~tuc/mac/