help needed... (beginner)

[Bhaskara Aditya]

hi everyone!
i'm very new to solaris. i have downloaded an installation file of a
fortran 95 compiler from the internet for solaris but i could not open
them. the files have extension .tgz. is it some kind of compression or
something?? if so, how do i get the executable file from it?? can
someone also give a reference to other free fortran 90/95 compilers?

thanks in advance for any help
bhaskara aditya

[Anthony Mandic]

Bhaskara Aditya wrote:

> i'm very new to solaris. i have downloaded an installation file of a
> fortran 95 compiler from the internet for solaris but i could not open
> them. the files have extension .tgz. is it some kind of compression or
> something?? if so, how do i get the executable file from it??

The files have been tar'ed and gzip'ed. You would need to gunzip
and then untar them. If you don't have the gzip programs, you
can get them from [url]http://sunfreeware.com[/url]

-am © 2003

[Barton Fisk]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 15:17:28 -0700, <"Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>">
wrote:

> In article <4aae922e.0308012252.410ed77a@posting.google.com >,
> [email]bhaskaraaditya@msn.com[/email] (Bhaskara Aditya) wrote:
>

>> hi everyone!
>> i'm very new to solaris. i have downloaded an installation file of a
>> fortran 95 compiler from the internet for solaris but i could not open
>> them. the files have extension .tgz. is it some kind of compression or
>> something?? if so, how do i get the executable file from it?? can
>> someone also give a reference to other free fortran 90/95 compilers?
>>
>> thanks in advance for any help
>> bhaskara aditya

>
> .tgz usually means ".tar.gzip". So, it's a gzip'ed tarball. You should
> have gzip on your system or you can download the binary from the "usual
> places" like sunfreeware.com.
>

Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of GNU's tar. It has several great
features including one-step "gunzip tar extract".

The command would be 'tar zxvf file.tgz'. Enjoy!

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[Barton Fisk]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 13:30:28 +1000, Anthony Mandic <qx@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Barton Fisk wrote:
>

>> Do yourself a favor and grab a copy of GNU's tar. It has several great
>> features including one-step "gunzip tar extract".

>
> You may wish to take into consideration what Jörg Schilling has
> to say about Gnu tar.
>

As always, caveat emptor.

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