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C-INTERCAL is distributed in compressed pax format; for
instance, you may find it as a ‘.pax.lzma’
file if you have the unlzma
decompression program (this is
advised, as it’s the smallest);
‘.pax.bz2’ is larger and
‘.pax.gz’ is larger still. Most computers can
decompress files in this format, even if they don’t realise it,
because pax is forwards-compatible with tar; try renaming the extension
from ‘.pax’ to ‘.tar’
after decompressing to see if you have a progam that can decompress it.
(If you’re wondering why such an apparently non-standard format
is being used, this is is actually a case where C-INTERCAL
is being perfectly nonstandard by conforming to the standards; tar is
no longer specified by POSIX, and pax is its replacement. It’s
just that pax never really caught on.)
It doesn’t matter where you extract the distribution file to: it’s best if you don’t put it anywhere special. If you aren’t an administrator, you should extract the file to somewhere in your home directory (Linux or UNIX-like systems) or to your My Documents directory (recent versions of Windows; if you’re using an older version, then you are an administrator, or at least have the same privileges, and can extract it anywhere). Some commands that you might use to extract it:
unlzma ick-0-29.pax.lzma tar xvf ick-0-29.pax
or
bunzip2 ick-0-29.pax.bz2 tar xvf ick-0-29.pax
or
gunzip ick-0-29.pax.gz tar xvf ick-0-29.pax
On most UNIX-based and Linux-based systems, tar
will
be available to unpack the installation files once they’ve
been uncompressed with gunzip
. (I’ve heard that
some BSD systems have pax
itself to decompress the
files, although have not been able to verify this; some Linux
distributions also have pax
in their package managers.
Both tar and pax should work fine, though.) gunzip
is
also likely to be available (and bunzip2
and
unlzma
are less likely, but use those versions if you
have them to save on your bandwidth); if it isn’t, you will
need to download a copy from the Internet.
tar xzvf ick-0-29.pax.gz
or
tar xqvf ick-0-29.pax.bz2
If you are using the GNU version of tar
(which is very
likely on Linux), you can combine the two steps into one as shown
here, except when using the lzma-compressed version.
djtar -x ick-0-29.pax.gz
On a DOS system, you will have to install DJGPP anyway to be able
to compile the distribution, and once you’ve done that you
will be able to use DJGPP’s decompressing and unpacking
utility to extract the files needed to install the distribution.
(You will need to type this at the command line; on Windows 95 and
later, try choosing Run... from the start menu then typing
cmd
(or command
if that fails) in the
dialog box that opens to get a command prompt, which you can exit
by typing exit
. After typing any command at a command
line, press RET to tell the shell to execute
that command.)
If you’re running a Windows system, you could always try double-clicking on the ick-0-29.pax.gz file; probably renaming it to have the extension ‘.tgz’ is likely to give the best results. It’s quite possible that you’ll have a program installed that’s capable of decompressing and unpacking it. Unfortunately, I can’t guess what program that might be, so I can’t give you any instructions for using it.
Whatever method you use, you should end up with a directory created
called ick-0.29; this is your main installation directory
where all the processing done by the installation will be carried out.
You will need to have that directory as the current directory during
install (at the command prompt in all the operating systems I know, you
can set the current directory by typing cd ick-0.29
).
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