frugal: HIGH notes from install May 4

Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:25:22 -0300
From: Landon Boyd <landon@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
References: <19970505070130.35349@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca> <Pine.LNX.3.94.970505072315.7563A-100000@ghome.chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Mon, May 05, 1997 at 07:27:24AM -0300, Gerard MacNeil wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Landon Boyd wrote:
> > > tar: skipping... skel/.passwd
> > > tar: unknown filetype 2 for skel/.signature, extracted as normal file
> > > tar: Skipping file beginning with dot skel/.signature
> > 
> > Strange...
> 
> Looks like the 'tar' is the csuite version.  'skel' must be un-tarred with
> the standard version in all cases in order to get the 'dot' files.  Likely
> a consequencce of 'TAR' being redefined in conf/vars, a product of
> re-installing CSuite when a CSuite version of TAR exists in the PATH
> before the original version.

Ah, of course.  This should work now, assuming tar is in /usr/local/bin,
/usr/bin or /bin.


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