At 10:18 AM 9/26/95 -0700, you wrote:
>> From: Edward Long <ironwolf@csd.uwm.edu>
>> Subject: linux question...
>>
>> Sorry to ask here, but Im running into some snags with linux (yes
>> still). Im downloading the most recent version I can find, but the files
>> are in tar format. Instead of untarring them on my account and then
>> moving the files one by one or even zipping them back up with gzip or
>> something is there a tar utility that I can get for dos? Ive got one for
>> gunzip but not for tar. Hopefully then I can get circle to run on linux :).
>
>Either I'm very confused or I'm very ignorant, but I don't see the reason
>for transporting stuff to dos if you're gonna use linux. The way I got my
>mud to run on linux was to grab what I had from the Sparc in tar-gzip format,
>ftp that file to the networked WinNT platform next to my Sparc at work,
>floppy it, go home, mount the floppy drive, copy stuff to the linux side
>of my pentium, tar xzf (so it unzips... but that's a GNU tar) and compile.
>
>I don't think the mud runs too well on vanilla Ms. Dos or if it did, it'd
>be a single user mud.
>
>Maybe you should describe your set up in more detail (what kind of account,
>what kind of linux, why the heck dos) :)
>It just doesn't seem to make sense to me.
>-Billy H. Chan ~{3B:FH;~} <bhchan@csua.berkeley.edu>
> For more, check out http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~bhchan
> NovaCmdr. 'Suicide Strom' of Clan Wolf | FiestyFly FireMoth Variant
> "If you're going under 100kph, you might as well stand still"
>
>
>
If you have linux at home and you plan to run a mud, then I am assuming you
have an internet connection from said Linux box. Whu not ftp the mud source
to your linux box direct and then simply untar and compile.
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