[lug] CDrecord Download

[William Jarosko Jr.]

David Willcox wrote:

> Hi guys,I have two cpu's until I can get my 'KDE' to dial in and
> thanks toDoug Bonnell I'm getting close.I did something wrong! After
> downloading 'cdrecord.gz' from mywindows cpu and copied it to floppy I
> loaded it in my Linux boxwith 'copy a:'. Now the it's named
> 'cdrecord.tar.gz'So I tried 'ungzip cdrecord.tar.gz' and it did unzip
> but has filename 'cdrecord.tar'. So out of ignorance I did a cp
> 'cdrecord.tar'to 'cdrecord' and after Renaming my old
> /usr/bin/cdrecord I putit in that directoy.Now when I use the cdrecord
> command it tells me (Linux 6.1 Mandrake) it cannot execute a binary
> file.What or when did I go wrong? Thanks ahead, David Willcox :-)

At the prompt where the .tar file is just type  "tar xvf cdrecord.tar".
This will extract the tar ball for you.
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