Fwd: Re: Installation

Sat Jan 18 09:21:00 GMT 2003

>From: "Scott Taylor" <scott.taylor@4i-dotcom.com>
>Subject: Re: Installation
>Date: 2003年1月17日 11:06:41 -0000
>>OK got locate working, but there seems to be something wrong in general with
>calling commands.
>>"ls -l" works fine but...
>"ls -l | more" does not
>>Also, I wanted to install cygipc but it gives me the following:
>>$ tar -C/ -xjf cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2
>tar (child): cygipc.1.13-2.tar.bz2: cannot open: no such file or directory
>tar (child): error not recoverable: exiting now
>tar: Child returned status 2
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>The file "tar.exe" is in my bin directory...why can't it see it?
>>Scott

Just to be clear, your shell is finding and running tar just fine (as you 
can confirm with "tar --help". Messages of the form "tar: blah blah blah" 
are from tar itself. If your shell couldn't find tar at all, you would get 
something like "bash: tar: command not found".
(Sorry for the munged headers.)
Jeremy
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