[Newbies] CogSpur on a Mac

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Fri Jan 20 09:32:57 UTC 2017


I tried uncompress on Linux and it works as expected - but actually I
thought gz extension was gzip,
So maybe "gunzip  CogSpur.tgz" will work better.

And btw this seems related...
https://github.com/dalibo/pgbadger/issues/70

cheers -ben

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Dan Norton <dnorton at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> Thanks for the prompt reply. Sorry to not respond sooner, but the mac user
> only just now got back to me for a few minutes. Still no success, but we'll
> restart from the beginning on another day. We probably need some options
> because "uncompress CogSpur.tgz" resulted in:
>
> overwrite Cogspur.tgz? y
>
> uncompress: CogSpur.tgz.Z: No such file or directory
>
> We'll try again with something like "uncompress -dkNl CogSpur.tgz"
> assuming mac options are same as Debian8, followed by "tar CogSpur.tar" (?)
>
>  - Dan
>
> On 01/17/2017 05:44 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
>
> Try using uncompress.
>
> Uncompress myfile
> Tar myfile
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Dan Norton [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]
> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4929811&i=0>> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to help someone many miles away install CogSpur on a mac. I run
> Linux as a newb.
>
> On the mac they have run:
>
>
> $ curl -L -o CogSpur.tgz https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases/download/201608171728/cog_macos32x86_squeak.cog.spur_201608171728.tar.gz
>
> But when they try to unzip:
>
>  $ tar -zxvf CogSpur.tgz
>
> tar: Unrecognized archive format
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>
> Thanks.
>  - Dan
>
>
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