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Date:Mon Dec 17 12:33:01 2001 
Subject:Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)... 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1011217.01 

Pete Goodeve wrote:

> I've found the 'mini-linux' version compiled for libc5, and -- Yaay!

Good.  That makes you the second recorded user.

> (Would have helped a bit if the source had mentioned
> the use of 'bzip', though.

Sorry, I was assuming that bzip2 was a standard tool in linux.  I did
put the instructions

  bunzip2 -c poplog1553.linux.libc5.nox.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
  (lots of potential variants on this one, see the bunzip2 and tar man
  pages)

in the README file on the ftp site, but if you just clicked a link to
download the tar file, you wouldn't have seen the README until after you
had managed to unpack the archive for yourself.

> So now I just have to open up my old Pop11 book and start slaking that
> thirst

Beware that things have changed a bit over the years.  Mostly for the
better, I hope, but you may find that some POP2 constructions won't
work.  And there are a great many things that you can do now that the
book won't mention.

Regards,

Stephen Isard