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Q23:I received my CD containing VOLUME1.TAR, now what?
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Issues regarding .TAR files |
PC users: VOLUME#.TAR is opened by either opening WinZip, then open .TAR, or
by double clicking on .TAR file in Windows Explorer.
UNIX users: VOLUME#.TAR is opened by using the "tar -xvf VOLUME#.TAR" syntax.
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Issues regarding .gz and .zip files |
PC users: We make the assumptions that users have both WinZip (for .gz & .tar)
and PKunzip (for .zip). If you do not have these programs then you
will need to install.
UNIX users: We make the assumption that users have GNU's Gzip/Gunzip (for .gz)
and PKunzip (for .zip). For .gz files some UNIX users can use zcat
or gzcat command for extraction - please review your online
documentation for these instructions. For .zip files some UNIX users
can use the unzip for extraction - please review your online
documentation for these instructions.
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PC user instructions on extracting .TAR and .zip and .gz files |
- Double click main .TAR to start extraction process using WinZip.
- Select All files within WinZip window and click "Extract" button.
- Select desired extract location on your hard drive then click "Extract" button.
- (for .gz only) :
- In WinZip window click "Open" button.
- Navigate to extract location in Step #3 above.
- Select files individually to extract raw data file.
- (for .zip only): Open an MS-DOS window
- Do one of the following
- Change directory (cd) to full unzipped path above(ex. c:\us037\fl\drg\24k) then go to (B) #1 below.
- Go to (B) #2 below.
Note: Within this directory you should find all the .zip files from above extraction using WinZip.
- Batch Extraction:
- pkunzip -e *
- pkunzip -e c:\us037\fl\drg\24k\*
Note: You may have to type the full path to your pkunzip.exe executable.
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UNIX user instructions on extracting .TAR and .zip and .gz files |
- Mount CD-ROM
- Change directory (cd) to location you wish to extract .tar contents.
- Type - "tar -xvf /path/to/CDROM/VOLUME#.TAR" - which will extract the .tar file.
- Change directory (cd) to full untar path above.
Note: Within this directory you should find all the .gz or .zip files from above extraction using tar command.
- (for .gz only): Type - "gunzip *" - which will expand all .gz files in directory.
- (for .zip only): Type - "pkunzip -x *" - which will extract all .zip file
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Installing Data on Unix
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Note: Unix users may need help from the System Administrator for doing the following steps.
- Download US Tar file onto Unix system.
- Create a list of unique directories found on Tar file.
- tar -tf VOLUME#.TAR |cut -d"/" -f2 |uniq
- example list:
us068
us071
- Create a directory to install files, or have your SysAdmin do this.
- SysAdmin will need to do the following as root:
- cd /
- ln -s path-to-where-you-want-tar-files us068
- ln -s path-to-where-you-want-tar-files us071
- SysAdmin changes access permission on newly created links
- You should now be able to execute a tar -xvf VOLUME#.TAR
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