Re: ?Figlet
From charcoal grey <lev...@cortez.its.rpi.edu>
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· 5 Nov 1994 18:21 · View full thread
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In article <39b185$ch...@hydra.cs.hope.edu>, Darrick Brown <dbr...@cs.hope.edu> wrote: >bdh...@eos.ncsu.edu wrote: > >: I'm having a bit of trouble with Figlet, that program >: we have all come to know and love. Anyway I ftp'd to the >: official Figlet site (ftp.isu.edu) and downloaded the >: compressed tarred version. I uncompressed it, and ran > >: tar -x figlet2.1.1.tar ~~~~ > >: on it. Here's it what it gave me. > >: tar: Can't open: /dev/rmt0h >: /dev/rmt0h: No such device or address >: tar: Please press RETURN to retry > The problem there is that you've left off the -f switch. Tar, by default, looks for a tape backup system, and to use it on a normal file, you have to tell it that. Try: tar -xf figlet2.1.1.tar
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,ba30d47edcbcd042 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-05 10:21:21 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!satisfied.elf.com!rpi!levinb From: lev...@cortez.its.rpi.edu (charcoal grey) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ?Figlet Date: 5 Nov 1994 18:21:21 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 24 Message-ID: <39gif2$9k...@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <399n1l$q3...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <39b185$ch...@hydra.cs.hope.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cortez.its.rpi.edu
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