[lug] CDrecord Download

[Bonnell, Doug]

Isn't UNIX fun?

You missed a step, so your final version of cdrecord is a tape archive file
rather than an executable file. Here are the steps:

	tar cvf cdrecord.tar /usr/bin/cdrecord    ----> cdrecord.tar
            gzip cdrecord.tar                                ---->
cdrecord.gz

Copy cdrecord.gz over to the Linux box. Then the steps are:

	gunzip cdrecord.gz                             ----> cdrecord.tar
            tar xvf cdrecord.tar                              ---->
/usr/bin/cdrecord

The "file" command is a very handy one to know under Linux. It will
tell you the type of a file: executable, tape archive, shell script, etc.

Doug Bonnell

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Willcox [SMTP:acesouth at frii.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:18 AM
> To:	LINUX User group
> Subject:	[lug] CDrecord Download
> 
> Hi guys,
> I have two cpu's until I can get my 'KDE' to dial in and thanks to
> Doug Bonnell I'm getting close.
> I did something wrong! After downloading 'cdrecord.gz' from my
> windows cpu and copied it to floppy I loaded it in my Linux box
> with 'copy a:'. Now the it's named 'cdrecord.tar.gz' 
> So I tried 'ungzip cdrecord.tar.gz' and it did unzip but has file
> name 'cdrecord.tar'. So out of ignorance I did a cp 'cdrecord.tar'
> to 'cdrecord' and after Renaming my old /usr/bin/cdrecord I put
> it 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 :-) << File: Daivd Willcox.vcf >>