[Xastir] NOOOBIE with Questions

[kb8uih at charter.net]

Thank you for the insites(sights?).  I needed a clue to open the 
terminal window to see these commands.

73,
Chris
KB8UIH

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."


On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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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