[Xastir] NOOOBIE with Questions

Curt, WE7U curt.we7u at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 13:51:57 EST 2011


On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Alex Carver wrote:

> For the case of the Xastir tarball you might want to do:
>
> cd /usr/local/src
> tar -xvzf tarball_filename (whatever the current xastir tarball name is)

Also:  Get used to using the "man" program to find out what each command does.  Many commands also respond to "-?" or "-h" or "--help" flags as well.

For instance, to learn about tar, type "man tar" in an xterm.  To learn about the shell, type "man bash".

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