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Re: executing files

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From: Matthew Tippett
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00
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Aaron Todd wrote:
> 
> I un gzipped communicator 4, and it gives me one file called communic, how
> do i execute this file. It says it cannot execute binary???
> 
> email raytodd@vianet.net.au

Two things, the communic, looks like a truncated filename.  Are you uncompressing
under a FAT filesystem?  There are 8 letters... Hmmm.

The normal distribution of communicator comes as a .tar.gz file.

So a couple of ways to uncompress it is...  For the paranoid expand
the communi*

	tar -xvzf communi*
	zcat communi* | tar -xvf -
	gunzip communi*;tar -xvf communi*

That is a few of the ways.  Make sure that you are in a subdirectory for the files,
otherwise directories get full very quickly.

Once expanded there should be a ns-install script that you can run.

Have fun!

Matt
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From: Matthew Tippett <Matthew.Tippett@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject: Re: executing files
Date: 1997/12/09
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