Can anyone please tell me how to install the grass4.1 linux binaries? I only
have access to them by downloading to MS-DOS, so I used rawrite3 to copy them
('linuxaa', etc.) to floppy disks. Now I don't know how to transfer them to
a linux partition. Thanks in advance. John Evensta SL6R2@cc.usu.edu
On Wed, 23 Mar 1994 SL6R2@cc.usu.edu wrote:
Can anyone please tell me how to install the grass4.1 linux binaries? I only
have access to them by downloading to MS-DOS, so I used rawrite3 to copy them
('linuxaa', etc.) to floppy disks. Now I don't know how to transfer them to
a linux partition. Thanks in advance.
Do you mean you don't know how to get what's on the floppies onto your
Linux hard drive partition, or you don't know what to do with the files
linuxa* once you get them there, or both?
For the former, that depends on how your DOS program put the data on the
floppies. If it did things so that Unix/Linux has a chance, and if you
have exactly one file (linuxaa, linuxab, etc.) per floppy, then I would
suggest cd'ing down to the directory where you want the files to land and
doing
cp /dev/fd0H1440 linuxaa
for each floppy and file. You'll need to figure out which /dev/fdSomething
to use, depending on what drive & format you're using. And of course
you'll do the above ten times with ten floppies, and give the correct file
name each time.
As to what to do with the linuxa* files once you have them on your Linux
partition, that's explained quite succinctly in the README file that was
in the same directory on topquark as the linuxa* files, which you will
have downloaded also. If you missed getting that file, let me know and
I'll email you my copy. I'll need it back real soon, though. 
-- Mark
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On Wed, 23 Mar 1994 SL6R2@cc.usu.edu wrote:
Can anyone please tell me how to install the grass4.1 linux binaries? I only
have access to them by downloading to MS-DOS, so I used rawrite3 to copy them
('linuxaa', etc.) to floppy disks. Now I don't know how to transfer them to
a linux partition. Thanks in advance. John Evensta SL6R2@cc.usu.edu
John:
You do NOT want to use rawrite to copy the linuxa? files to your floppies
(rawrite is only used for Linux Boot/Install diskettes), as you will lose
the file sizes (which is required)! The simplest method would be to copy
them to DOS Formatted diskettes (as you most likely did for the Linux
Distribution), then read them back into the /tmp directory under Linux
using mcopy (from mtools) and then run the file concatination,
decompression & TAR extraction as discribed in the readme.
cat linuxa? | gzip -d | (cd <Insatll Dir>; tar xvf -)
The linuxa? series are the parts of a split compressed TAR archive, that
is the reason for the multiple steps in the pipe chain.
Lawrence Houston - (houston@norton.geog.mcgill.ca)