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Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Software => Topic started by: ultra-hp on May 06, 2004, 10:15:35 pm
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If anyone could help it would be great!
Just purchased a SL-C760 and I am trying to get it to work with either znes or mame.
Just downloaded all the sdl libraries and advancemame as indicated in another forum posting. The advance mame was in a gz format so I went into the console and typed
gunzip advancemame-0.81.1-linux-pentium.tar.gz
and now I have a file called
advancemame-0.81.1-linux-pentium.tar
how can I get this to work?
THanks in advance
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tar -cvf filename.tar
or you could have done with the original .tar.gz
tar -cvzf filename.tar.gz
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tar xvf advancemame-0.81.1-linux-pentium.tar
should untar it. not sure what to do after that.
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when I type
tar -cvf advancemame-0.81.1-linux-pentartium.tar.gz
I get the responce :
tar: cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
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it worked!
Thanks!
what is a tar? (compared to a win file?)
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(the xvf worked)
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A tar file is uncompressed, it basically tacks lots of files (which can be in directories) together into one file, keeping their permissions, ownership, directory info etc. This single file can then be compressed with gzip (.gz).
I don\'t think that there is a Windows equivalent, just that tar & gzip are about the same as zipping something (you can also zip under Linux if you so desire).
Offroadgeek\'s post is wrong.
The switches are:
z - uncompress using gunzip
x - extract
c - create (so you only use one of these)
f - it\'s a file (this is always needed, don\'t ask)
v - be verbose
e.g.
tar -zxvf somefiles.tar.gz (extract from tar.gz)
tar -xvf somefiles.tar (extract from tar)
tar -cvf somefiles.tar ./getfilesfromhere/* (create tar file)
Si